The polling firm IPSOS has completed a global poll on peoples' views towards immigration. The managing director of the polling company, Bobby Duffy, concluded the following, “People are twice as likely to think that immigration is bad for their country than think it is good.”
Indeed, 39% of respondents in the 25 countries polled wanted their borders closed to ALL refugees entirely.
Perhaps more importantly for the purposes of this thread, the view of Americans on this topic was generally no different than the views everyone else around the world --
“Americans’ views on immigration and refugees mirror global unease. Both in the U.S. and worldwide, nearly half say there are too many immigrants in their country and four in 10 support closing borders to refugees entirely,” reports a massive Ipsos poll of 18,000 citizens in 25 nations who generally agree that global immigration is increasing, with “negative consequences.”
Among the findings: 75 percent of the respondents say “the amount of migrants” in their country has increased; 44 percent agree that “immigration is causing my country to change in ways I don’t like.” A quarter disagreed. Almost half — 48 percent — said there were “too many new arrivals” in their nation; 21 percent disagreed.
The poll also found that 42 percent said the impact of immigration in their homeland has been negative, while 21 percent said the effect had been positive. Another 49 percent said immigration placed “too much pressure on public services”; 19 percent disagreed.
https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default...dvisor_Immigration_Slides - US Deck FINAL.pdf