More Americans Dissatisfied With Immigration Level: Gallup
Rafael Bernal, The Hill, February 14, 2022
Dissatisfaction with current immigration levels spiked in January as dissatisfaction among Republican respondents surged in Gallup’s periodic Mood of the Nation poll.
According to the poll, 58 percent of all Americans are dissatisfied with current immigration levels.
Of that group, 35 percent of respondents want immigration levels decreased, 9 percent say they want levels increased and 14 percent say they are dissatisfied with current levels but they don’t want immigration levels to increase or decrease.
The number of respondents who said they want decreased immigration rose sharply from 2021, when only 19 percent of respondents said they wanted reduced immigration, the lowest level since Gallup started asking the question in 2001.
January’s 35 percent number is the highest since 2017, which followed a peak in anti-immigration sentiment in 2016.
The rise in immigration dissatisfaction was almost entirely driven by Republican respondents, 87 percent of whom said they are dissatisfied with current levels of immigration.
That level is the highest ever recorded by Gallup, and a significant jump from 2021, when only 19 percent of Republicans said they were dissatisfied with current immigration levels.
Among Democrats, 40 percent said they’re dissatisfied with current levels, a drop from 47 percent in 2021; 55 percent of independents said they’re dissatisfied, up from 49 percent in 2021.
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Among Republicans, only 3 percent are dissatisfied and say immigration levels should increase, while 69 percent say levels should decrease, a significant jump from 2021, when only 40 percent Republicans called for immigration reductions.
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Still, 52 percent of Democrats said they’re satisfied with current levels, and only 11 percent said they want to see reduced immigration.
And nearly a third of independents, 32 percent, say they are dissatisfied with current levels and want to see less immigration, while 34 percent say they are content with current levels.
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