Americans Back Trump On Immigration — But Only To Stop COVID-19, Poll Finds

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Most Americans support efforts to restrict immigrants from entering the U.S. if it helps slow the spread of COVID-19, a new poll finds. But most of Trump's other immigration policies, including his border wall, remain unpopular except among Republicans.

, and turning away asylum seekers at the southern border. The administration also closed the southern and northern borders to all but"essential" travel.

"I feel like we need to take care of America first," Tammy Bunce, a Republican respondent from Queen Creek, Ariz."We should be staying at home, and I think other countries should not be coming in until we have the coronavirus especially under control." That's partly because of the pandemic, Torres says, but also because"there's a lot of undocumented here that should be documented before we start adding to the immigration."

From the outset of the pandemic, Trump has blamed foreigners for bringing coronavirus to the United States, calling it the"China virus" and"kung flu." He's also returned to a familiar refrain about protecting American jobs as justification for the latest immigration restrictions, pointing to the battered economy.

 

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We need to protect our citizens from criminal illegal aliens. In the last two years immigration officers have made arrests at the border of illegal aliens that were charged or convicted of more than 100000 assaults and 4000 killings

Most Americans support efforts to restrict immigrants from entering the U.S. PERIOD. 😁

NO - NOT ALL AMERICANS!!!!!

Trump Wall is a ploy he uses to gain votes with Anglos who dislike Latins creating a wedge which only stirs, riles up, and gets no vote from me! I know I'm a Nobody but I can vote against him!

Mexico is now building a wall to keep covid-19 carrying Americans out...and says it will make trump pay for it.

Working across the public and private sectors, the Trump Administration continues to drastically expand testing capacity.

Most Americans are ill informed, and have no idea what’s around them. 1. Immigration has already grounded to a halt. 2. America leads in the number of confirmed cases and per capita deaths related to COVID. 3. So, their sentiments should be the other way round unfortunately.

Build the WALL STOP ILLEGAL S from stealing from all if us JOBS WELLFAR HOUSING AND MUCH MUCH MORE

LOL, seriously they are BANNING US. My passport is worthless right now

Everyone else is worried about the US going into THEIR countries. Stay put US!!!

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 As if.

How about testing immigrants or quarantining instead of banning immigrants?

We've done that in Canada by closing our border to the US.

Most Americans aren't covering their mouths and social distancing. I'd trust immigrants to do better than we are. They show respect.

If Trump would stop counting them, then we wouldn’t have a problem.

Americans are spreading it just fine without any help.

“If it helps slow the spread” is key here. Most Americans would support a lot of things to slow the spread that they normally wouldn’t support. Except, apparently, keeping their own kids at home. Because kids back at school will speed up the spread. Most places: 🤷‍♂️

Last I checked everyone has their borders closed to this clown show of a nation?

That's funny, since most other countries on the planet have banned Americans from traveling there, because the virus is out of control in this country.

Why not be honest and say DemonRats want open borders and illegals to be able to vote because that is their only hope of winning is get a bunch of new people on government assistance.

This is an ironically comedic thing to believe. We are the ones that every other country should be worried about when we travel abroad. We are the HOTSPOT! Immigrants should be worried of being infected by US!

Wall will never work. Imm 1yr. in US should be required to apply 4 citizenship if not deportation. Ellis Isl. should be reinstituted & added to in Gulf, Cali, coasts & Canada. That and a cap on immigration period till Us can absorb more.

Defund NPR.

You always wonder how they ask the question because do you really think that those towns along the border in the United States should be left wide open to drug cartels smuggling human trafficking because not having the border wall that’s what you get

Yeah, ok. Here’s where Americans can travel.

Trump is crazy. Because of him we have more covid19 cases in the US. Mexico has been trying to block us from crossing the border, and with good reason.

The current border policies are immoral, unethical, sadistic and humanitarian abuses

So, most Americans are xenophobic?

The US is the epicenter for the virus now. Immigrants are scared of the US not the other way around. US citizens won't be allowed in other countries anytime soon because of our COVID outbreak, not the other way around.

Most Americans are not welcome because most Americans will not support themselves. Always looking for someone else to blame. Look in a mirror.

Fake

So MOST Americans are for stopping the flow of illegal invaders but only Republicans want to lock the door... That because Democrats are idiots

We not only need to END immigration, but begin mass deportations as well.

OMG NPR you continue to embarrass. So, *immigrants* are the cause of the COVID explosion here? It really is time to change the label of your organization from 'news' to 'comedy'.

TearDownRTumpsWall

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