Jason Hopkins on April 30, 2019
A newly released survey shows a dramatic increase in the percentage of Democrats who believe the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border constitutes a “crisis.”
Thirty-five percent of self-identified Democrats said that they believed the situation to be a crisis, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted between April 22 and 25. The number is a more than three-fold rise from the last time the question was asked in January, when only seven percent of Democrats agreed that it was a crisis.
Concern for the border increased across all partisan demographics in the past three months.
Forty-nine percent of Republicans polled in January believed there was a border crisis. That number jumped to 56 percent in April. Independents also rose from 21 to 30 percent, and more adults overall agreed that there was a crisis at the U.S. southern border.
The survey also asked who was to blame for the immigration situation: President Donald Trump or Congressional Democrats. A slightly higher number of respondents chose Democrats, with a breakdown of 35 percent to 32 percent, but the result was largely split along partisan lines.
Americans’ changing views on immigration could become a problem for Democrats in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. Previously accusing Trump of “manufacturing” a crisis at the southern border, more Democrats have now relented that a “humanitarian crisis” is taking place. Some prominent Democrats have even expressed optimism at an immigration deal with the GOP.
Democratic presidential candidates, however, have maintained that the president’s immigration policies are not working.
“If the Democrats don’t give us the votes to change our weak, ineffective and dangerous Immigration Laws, we must fight hard for these votes in the 2020 Election!” Trump tweeted on Monday, his latest shot against Democrats and their opposition to his immigration agenda.
The president has implemented, or is trying to implement, a number of initiatives to stem the immigration crisis. Such measures include more border wall funding, deportation and asylum reform, changes to the visa system, more troops at the border, along with other requests. The president has even expressed interest in alleviating overcrowded detention centers by dumping illegal migrants in sanctuary cities.
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What do Democrats propose? More care facilities won’t stop anyone from getting across the border. More Border Patrol just moves illegals more efficiently to holding facilities, so that won’t stop illegal crossings. Drones and sensors just give us videos of mobs of illegals getting in at night.
How about more asylum judges? That doesn’t stop anyone from getting in, it only cuts the backlog in asylum cases. But the Ninth Circuit just cancelled that result by ruling that when the asylum court denies asylum, every illegal then has the right to an appearance BEFORE A FEDERAL JUDGE. Since we have such a limited number of federal judges, the 9th has just doubled the backlog, or worse.
The one thing that WILL stop people from getting across is physical barriers. So naturally Democrats call that “immoral”. How can anyone deny that Democrats WANT illegals to get in? So what if Democrats now admit there is a crisis–they “never let a crisis go to waste”.
They Really Are making Very Dumb from themselfs , and Completely “Out of Time” , … !!! ! !!!
Meaning is lost in the physical mess that currently exists and was set-up by the previous administration. Time for investigation is way passed as it is well known who the culprits are and what they have done. What is needed and justified has no chance to be fulfilled as America is no longer capable of applying the Laws that do already exist. The Democratic Party must change their name as they are not democratic and their party has transformed into a radical far left pro-Islam globalist cabal.
He’s already started dumping illegals into sanctuary cities. Guess who’s complaining about it, those that pushed it to this point, liberals. Works for me. ?
Hey; better late than never !