Politico
A plurality of Americans believes immigration is the most important problem facing the U.S., a new poll says.
According to a Gallup poll released Wednesday, 17 percent of Americans think immigration is the country’s biggest problem, a major jump just from last month, when 5 percent listed immigration for the same question. This is the highest that immigration has ranked in the Gallup survey since 2006. Historically, spikes in mentions of immigration as the top issue have quickly receded.
In the past month, the Obama administration and Congress have been confronted with a crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border, where more than 50,000 undocumented children from Central America have arrived since October. A Washington Post/ABC News survey released Tuesday showed that a more than half of Americans disapprove of President Barack Obama’s handling of the situation at the border and two-thirds disapprove of congressional Republicans’ approach.
In Wednesday’s survey, respondents were split on which party was better suited to tackle immigration — 35 percent said Republicans are better able to handle the problem and 35 percent said Democrats.
Twenty-three percent of Republicans mentioned immigration as the biggest problem, compared with just 11 percent of Democrats, a finding that Gallup said could suggest the numbers are fueled primarily by concerns about illegal immigration.
Sixteen percent of respondents said dissatisfaction with government, poor leadership and corruption is the country’s biggest problem, putting that in second place. The economy came in third with 15 percent, unemployment and jobs in fourth with 14 percent and health care rounded out the top five with 8 percent.
Those problems scored ahead of other issues including the federal budget deficit and debt, education, poverty, taxes and wage issues.
The survey was conducted July 7-10 with 1,013 adults. The margin for error is plus-or-minus four percentage points.
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Read something yesterday that said Congressman Colburn said we can send them all back home for only 8 Million instead of the over 3 Billion the President is asking for.