{"id":1616698,"date":"2022-08-19T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1616698"},"modified":"2022-08-19T13:48:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:48:15","slug":"54-percent-of-americans-say-illegal-immigration-crisis-an-invasion-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/54-percent-of-americans-say-illegal-immigration-crisis-an-invasion-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"54 Percent of Americans Say Illegal Immigration Crisis an \u2018Invasion\u2019: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F54-percent-of-americans-say-illegal-immigration-crisis-an-invasion-poll%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1616698&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The flood of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-illegal-immigrants\">illegal immigrants<\/a> and drugs coming over the U.S.\u2013Mexico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-border\">border<\/a> constitutes an \u201cinvasion,\u201d a majority of respondents to a new poll say.<\/p>\n<p>Respondents were asked to label the statement, \u201cThe U.S. is experiencing an invasion at the southern border\u201d as completely or somewhat true, completely false, or don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>More than half, or 54 percent, said it\u2019s true. Republicans were much more likely to say the statement is true, with 76 percent agreeing compared to 40 percent of Democrats and 46 percent of respondents.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats were most likely to say the statement was completely false, and independents were most likely to say they don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>Under President Joe Biden, the United States has recorded unprecedented numbers of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border. Due to relaxed immigration enforcement policies, many illegal aliens have been released into the U.S. interior, while deportations have plunged.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the immigration crisis, a number of Texas counties have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/growing-number-of-texas-counties-declare-invasion-at-border_4627914.html\">declared the situation<\/a> an \u201cinvasion,\u201d including Parker County. Officials also cited drugs being brought across the border.<\/p>\n<p>Seven out of 10 Republicans in the new poll said the drugs being brought over the border are responsible for the increase in drug overdoses in America, along with 35 percent of Democrats and 45 percent of independents.<\/p>\n<p> \u2018Open Border Policy\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>A majority of Republicans also agreed with the statement the United States is implementing \u201can open border policy\u201d along the border.<\/p>\n<p>A person\u2019s main source of news impacted their choices, pollsters found. Republicans who watched Fox News, for instance, were more likely to describe the border crisis as an invasion than those who have a different primary source.<\/p>\n<p>Fox regularly reports from the border, including showing footage of migrants crossing the border between ports of entries, which makes them illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>The most cited source of news for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flood of illegal immigrants and drugs coming over the U.S.\u2013Mexico border constitutes an \u201cinvasion,\u201d a majority of respondents to a new poll say. Respondents were asked to label the statement, \u201cThe U.S. is experiencing an invasion at the southern border\u201d as completely or somewhat true, completely false, or don\u2019t know. More than half, or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}