Harvard/Harris Poll: Americans side with Trump on immigration/deportation

[Tender Branson]

The online survey of 2,148 registered voters was conducted between Feb. 11 and 13. The partisan breakdown is 39 percent Democrat, 30 percent Republican, 27 percent independent and 5 percent other. The Harvard–Harris Poll survey is a collaboration of the Harvard Center for American Political Studies and The Harris Poll.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/320487-poll-americans-overwhelmingly-oppose-sanctuary-cities

[Meclazine for Israel]

Once his policies are actually implemented on immigration reform, those numbers will only increase.

[Ronnie]

Polls are all over the place on these questions.

[elcorazon]

silly poll

[elcorazon]

just seeing the phrasing, I could've told you the results

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Polls are all over the place on these questions.

True, but regardless of the poll, I think Meclazine has it right.

Once his policies are actually implemented on immigration reform, those numbers will only increase.

[elcorazon]

Polls are all over the place on these questions.

True, but regardless of the poll, I think Meclazine has it right.

Once his policies are actually implemented on immigration reform, those numbers will only increase.

Xenophobia will continue, that is true.

[Mr. Morden]

Meanwhile, Quinnipiac has a poll out today that shows that every plank of the Middle Eastern travel ban is unpopular:

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2431

I think the one thing that consistently polls well if you frame it this way is *reducing* the number of refugees that the US accepts.  If you frame it as a reduction in the number rather than cutting it down to zero, then it's popular.  So the 51% in this poll saying that 100,000 Syrian refugees this year is too many...that sounds plausible to me.  But pretty much every other aspect of the travel ban is popular in some polls and unpopular in others.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Conflating the wall and the sanctuary city question is problematized by the further question asking about the wall.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

So the 51% in this poll saying that 100,000 Syrian refugees this year is too many...that sounds plausible to me.

Granted, Obama wanted to increase the number of refugees admitted, but the last fiscal year we admitted 100,000 refugees was 1995.  We didn't let in even 40,000 refugees from the Middle East as a whole during any Obama fiscal year.  So apparently Trump could brag about "reducing" the number of Syrian refugees to 50,000 and people would believe him.

https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/prm/releases/statistics/251288.htm

[Meclazine for Israel]

Polls are all over the place on these questions.

True, but regardless of the poll, I think Meclazine has it right.

Once his policies are actually implemented on immigration reform, those numbers will only increase.

That is what happened in Australia. Now, even the left would not revoke the boat policy.

[SCNCmod]

One problem with this issue (and polls).. most American's complete have NO CLUE what a sanctuary city is.  Many think somehow it protect illegal immigrants from any prosecution  rather than just protecting them from being profiled or rounded up or singled out, etc.  A good example is the lady from Texas who asked Pelosi in the CNN town hall- If Pelosi's district would prosecute the illegal that killed her son (if it had happened in San Francisco)