Among Americans aged 18 and older, 57 percent disapproved of the job Biden is doing on immigration, while just 34 percent approved.
Immigration lagged only those two issues for Independents as well, the choice of 10 percent of the politically unaligned, while among Republicans, immigration tied with inflation as the top issue, each issue chosen by 25 percent of voters who affiliate with the GOP. Contrast that with Democratic respondents.
Had it not been for the Democrats surveyed - 54 percent of whom approved of Biden's handling of immigration and 42 percent of whom disapproved - those results would have been even worse for the incumbent.
In any event, that 26 percent approval to 71 percent disapproval split on Biden's handling of immigration is the biggest vulnerability for the president in a poll that shows he's underwater on every key political issue: jobs - 48 percent approve, 49 percent disapprove; infrastructure - 43 percent approve, 53 percent disapprove; climate change - 41 percent approve, 53 percent disapprove; inflation - 34 percent approve, 63 percent disapprove; foreign policy - 33 percent approve, 65 percent disapprove.
Notably, more than half - 51 percent - of GOP voters surveyed identified immigration as among the most important issues facing the country, and 56 percent of those aged 65 years and older did the same.
American voters have plainly awakened to what's occurring at the Southwest border, and don't like what they're seeing: Some 63 percent of respondents - and 65 percent of Independents - believe that the immigration problem at the border is getting worse.
While the president claims he needs Congress to give him new powers to deal with the border surge, 54 percent of respondents believe he has all the authority he needs to control the border - including 51 percent of Democrats - although Independents were evenly split, 50-50, on that question.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Somehow-Bidens-Immigration-and-Border-Polling-Gets-Worse
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