✔️Joe Biden’s Border Crisis Worsens
The survey of eligible voters, carried out by Redfield & Wilton Strategies, found just 20 percent think the U.S. has “control over its borders,” down from 34 percent in August 2023. This is a significant blow for the Biden administration with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump having made tightening border control one of the main pillars of his bid for a second White House term.
Irregular immigration has become a top political issue over the past few years, with 9.8 million migrant encounters recorded between October 2019 and January 2024, according to figures from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. On April 12, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that 507,200 suspected undocumented migrants had been detained in his state since 2021 when he launched Operation Lone Star to combat illegal crossings.
Asked, “Do you believe the United States has control over its borders?” In the new poll, 63 percent replied “no” against 20 percent for “yes,” with another 13 percent responding “don’t know.” Notably, those who answered no included 53 percent of those who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 and a plurality in all of the age groups surveyed, including 47 percent of Generation Z who were born between 1997 and 2002.
The survey of 1,500 eligible voters was conducted on April 11.
When given the same question by Redfield & Wilton Strategies in August 2023, 58 percent of eligible U.S. voters replied “no” versus 34 percent for “yes” and 8 percent for “don’t know.”
The April survey also asked whether voters were “satisfied or dissatisfied with the government’s current approach towards illegal immigration.” In response, 52 percent answered either “dissatisfied” or “very dissatisfied,” against just 21 percent for “satisfied” and “very satisfied.” Another 21 percent said they were “neither satisfied nor dissatisfied,” while 6 percent answered “don’t know.”
Newsweek reached out to the White House press office and a spokesperson for President Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign for comment by email.
In February, a sweeping $118 billion bipartisan Senate bill aimed at tightening illegal immigration and providing aid to American allies, including Ukraine and Israel, was rejected by key House Republicans, who argued it didn’t go far enough in tightening the border.
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