The most recent poll by UK journal The Economist and opinion firm YouGov found that 62 percent of respondents believe the country is on the "Wrong track" when it comes to immigration, with only 18 percent stating we are "Generally headed in the right direction" on the issue.
Curiously men were much more likely than women to believe that immigration in this country was headed in the right direction when it comes to immigration, by a 21 percent to 15 percent margin.
A plurality of those who voted for the president believed that the United States was on the wrong track on immigration, compared to 27 percent who felt things were headed in the right direction.
Most ominously for the president's fellow Democrats, Independents - critical swing voters in midterm elections like those that will be held this November - are more sour when it comes to the subject: 68 percent of the uncommitted fall into the wrong-track group, while a mere 13 percent believe that we are headed generally in the right direction when it comes to immigration.
A plurality of respondents in this cohort believe that the United States is on the wrong track when it comes to immigration, compared to 25 percent who think the country is headed in the right direction.
The one bright spot for those White House advisors who are crafting the president's border policies is that fewer respondents are identifying immigration as the "Most important" issue to them: Just 8 percent identified it as such, trailing "Jobs and the economy", "Health care", "Climate change and the environment", and "Taxes and government spending" and "Abortion".
That's a two-point drop in the importance of immigration from just a month before in the same poll, and the May 2 leak of a Supreme Court draft abortion opinion likely has played a role in the shift: Abortion was the most important issue for just 4 percent of respondents in that earlier poll, and as noted gained five points in the interim.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Poll-62-Believe-US-Wrong-Track-Immigration
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