New poll shows that an overwhelming number of Americans now supporting the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall amid the southern border crisis.
According to Fox News’ survey, 48 percent of the respondents said that the situation at the southern border is an emergency, up from 27 percent who felt that way in February 2019.
FOX NEWS POLL: A record number of voters favor building a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) October 11, 2023
Do you Support or Oppose building a wall along U.S. Mexico border?
Support 57% [+18]
Oppose 40% [-11]
[Change vs Sept. 2018]
Support/Oppose
DEM: 27/68
GOP: 88/12
IND: 53/38… pic.twitter.com/5u363uuikH
The increase in concern comes mainly from black voters (+27), independents (+26), Democrats (+24), Hispanic voters (+23), and men (+20), with each group being at least 20 points more likely to now call it an emergency.
Meanwhile, 57 percent are in favor of building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, an 8 percent jump from February.
“The images we’ve seen from the Rio Grande River in recent weeks are compelling,” says Republican Daron Shaw, who helps conduct the Fox News poll. “Border security is clearly a problem for the Biden administration and their shift on funding for the wall reflects the strategic need to neutralize the issue in advance of the 2024 elections.”
“This would be a great time to have a functioning Congress,” says fellow Fox News staff and Democrat Chris Anderson. “The consequences of inaction on immigration reform are inflicting pain in red and blue states and the broad middle of the electorate agrees on a range of reforms that should be no-brainers to Congress.”
The Biden administration, however, appears to be finally coming to their senses, as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced that it is constructing a 20-mile wall in Starr County, Texas.
“There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States in the project areas,” said DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a notice posted on the U.S. Federal Registry.
The border wall was one of former President Donald Trump’s biggest campaign promises, and his administration constructed about 450 miles of border barriers between 2017 and January 2021.
The decision to build the wall contradicts President Joe Biden’s previous promise to end the construction, saying that “building a massive wall that spans the entire southern border is not a serious policy solution.”
