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“I don’t think that public opinion necessarily should be kind of the main litmus test for what kind of policies we’re willing to stomach at the federal level,” Gleeson said.Only one race remains undecided. The political sphere bears a lot of responsibility for how immigration is framed as a public debate, Gleeson said. “What it does have a lot of impact on is how lethal that journey is, and also the amount of human trafficking and crime related to the kind of smuggling that has emerged.”ĭespite the divide, the poll shows there was much more support (48%) for increasing spending on border security, rather than cutting funding (20%). “There’s no evidence that a border build-up is necessarily keeping people from coming,” Gleeson said. However, immigration experts disagree with the wall’s effectiveness. In Yuma, Arizona, border officials say massive gaps in the border wall allow for up to 1,000 migrants to enter the country each day. The southern border barrier was never finished - construction was halted when the Biden administration took power - leaving miles-long stretches of fenceless borderland. “This poll shows that that divide between the ages is getting a little bigger.” “If you’re younger, you’re a little bit more lenient on illegal immigrants than if you’re older,” Tranter said.

At the same time, 47% of those between the ages of 18 and 34 said they’d support it. More than three-fourths of respondents over the age of 55 said they opposed releasing single men into the country.

Older voters were even less favorable toward the proposal. “It’s hard to get 60 percent or more of Americans to agree on anything,” Tranter said. More than 66 percent of respondents rejected the idea of such a policy being in place, according to the NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ poll. The only other area where those polled showed wide consensus was on the question of whether undocumented men traveling alone should be released into the United States if apprehended at the border.

Americans are also divided on whether to grow, decrease or keep immigration levels the same.

There’s also no real consensus on whether illegal immigration negatively affects communities. .

It’s a near 50-50 split on questions surrounding border wall effectiveness and support for “catch-and-release” policies for women, children and families apprehended at the border.

The last major immigration reform that was passed was in 1986, Gleeson said.īut unlike a path to citizenship, Americans are divided on almost everything else related to immigration, the poll found. The percentage also remains high if there are some requirements to the path toward citizenship.īut Americans who favor a path to citizenship starts to drop when the question is for adults or there are fewer requirements attached to obtaining citizenship. The country has typically been strongly in favor of citizenship for DREAMers, the term for undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. Tranter added: “That’s a clear winner there for the Biden administration, or any administration or any politician, to look at and say: ‘Hey, I want to be for something which the majority of Americans are supporting.’”Īmericans’ feelings about a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants in the country has ebbed and flowed among in the past several years. “Some domestic advisers in the White House falsely think that if Biden pushes for a path to citizenship and programs to regularize the undocumented, that there would be a political price to pay in future elections,” Castañeda said. Migration researcher Ernesto Castañeda, a sociology professor and director of the Immigration Lab at American University, said this and similar polls show how lawmakers need to lean on the issue of immigration.

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Full report: NewsNation’s survey on immigration and border security