Amid a historic wave of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border unlawfully, an overwhelming majority of Americans polled say that illegal immigration is a crisis or—at best—a “major problem.”
A recent poll by Gallup found that 39 percent of Americans believe the border situation is a full-blown “crisis.” Another 33 percent think it’s a “major problem,” meaning that a whopping 72 percent believe the situation on the border is bad enough to be considered seriously problematic.
Views on illegal immigration held by Republicans—who have long opposed open borders—have remained mostly unchanged from 2019, when a similar poll was conducted by Gallup during the administration of then President Donald Trump….