Border Wall Wins Support from Working Class Whites, 4-in-10 Hispanics

Most white working class Americans, as well as many Hispanic Americans, support building a wall along the United States-Mexico border to prevent illegal immigration, a new poll finds.

A Quinnipiac Poll released this week shows that 59 percent of white non-college-educated Americans support continuing to build a border wall, while only 34 percent oppose the plan. Meanwhile, white college-educated Americans oppose a border wall by a 55 percent majority.

White American men support a border wall by a wide margin of 63 percent to only 33 percent opposition. {snip}

Though a majority of Hispanics said they oppose a border wall, 53 percent – about 4-in-10 – said they support building a wall along the border — a key demographic opening for candidates running on reducing overall immigration to the U.S.

{snip} Ninety-one percent of Republicans said they support a border wall, while just seven percent said they oppose it.

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