{"id":2227693,"date":"2024-04-22T21:33:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T01:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-just-20-percent-of-voters-say-united-states-has-control-over-its-borders\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T21:35:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T01:35:05","slug":"poll-just-20-percent-of-voters-say-united-states-has-control-over-its-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-just-20-percent-of-voters-say-united-states-has-control-over-its-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Only 20% of Voters Believe the United States Has Border Control"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fpoll-just-20-percent-of-voters-say-united-states-has-control-over-its-borders%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=2227693&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>A recent poll conducted by Redfield and Wilton Strategies on behalf of Newsweek revealed that only 20% of eligible voters believe the\u200c United States \u2063has control over \u200dits borders. The survey, conducted with 1,500 voters, shows a significant decline from \u200cprevious months. Interestingly, 63% of respondents\u200d answered negatively \u2064when asked about border control, highlighting widespread\u2062 skepticism across age groups \u2064and political affiliations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Only 20 percent of eligible voters think that the United States has control of its own borders, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/changes-in-public-legal-perception-ahead-of-derek-chauvin-trial\/\" title=\"Changes in public, legal perception ahead of Derek Chauvin trial\">recent poll found<\/a>, making it the latest survey find Biden underwater on the critical election-year issue.<\/p>\n<p>The poll of 1,500 eligible voters, performed by Redfield and Wilton Strategies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/joe-biden-border-control-immigration-poll-1892261\">on behalf<\/a> of Newsweek, found that just 20 percent of respondents said that the United States has control over its border, marking a significant decline over the past several months. The number has plummeted since August, when 34% of respondents said that the country had control over its own borders.<\/p>\n<p>When asked \u201cDo you believe the United States has control over its borders?\u201d a full 63 percent said \u201cno,\u201d while another 13 percent said \u201cdon\u2019t know.\u201d A plurality of all age groups surveyed in the poll, which was performed on April 11th, agreed that the U.S. does not have control over its borders, including 47 percent of Generation Z, which was defined as those born between 1997 and 2002. A majority of those who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 (53 percent) also said that the U.S. does not have control over its borders.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also asked voters their thoughts on the government\u2019s current handling of illegal immigration, with 52 percent saying that they were either dissatisfied or very dissatisfied, while only 21 percent said that they were satisfied or very satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/voters-say-immigration-is-top-issue-facing-country-biden-faces-widespread-disapproval-on-immigration\">recent poll<\/a> found that only 36 percent of voters approve of Biden\u2019s handling of immigration, making it the incumbent Democrat\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-budget-to-fund-border-security-in-egypt-jordan-while-u-s-faces-unprecedented-border-crisis\/\" title=\"Biden's budget includes funding for border security in Egypt and Jordan amidst a critical border situation in the U.S\">lowest issue-specific approval rating<\/a> for the fourth month in a row. Even polls from blue states like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/poll-colorado-voters-say-immigration-is-the-top-issue-as-2024-election-draws-closer\">Colorado<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/poll-massachusetts-voters-say-immigration-is-the-top-issue-facing-the-state\">Massachusetts<\/a> found that voters say immigration is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/experts-slam-bidens-economic-agenda-following-june-jobs-report\/\" title=\"Experts Slam Biden\u2019s Economic Agenda Following June Jobs Report\">biggest issue facing<\/a> their respective states.<\/p>\n<p>The polls\u2019 findings come as the country has seen a seismic surge in illegal immigration, with officials recording about 9 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/nationwide-encounters\">nationwide encounters<\/a> and 1.7 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-admin-may-have-lost-track-millions-of-migrants-crossing-southern-border-congressional-report\">estimated gotaways<\/a> since President Joe Biden took office. The figure poses a sharp contrast with the 415,000 total reported gotaways for 2018, 2019, and 2020 under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump appears to be gaining on Biden in the polls, no doubt in part due to widespread disapproval of the Democrat\u2019s border policies. One recent poll found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-leads-biden-in-crucial-midwestern-swing-state-poll\">Trump now leads Biden<\/a> in Wisconsin, one of seven crucial swing states.\u00a0Previous surveys found that the former president was in the lead in all six of the other seven swing states.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent survey by Redfield and Wilton Strategies for Newsweek revealed that only 20% of eligible voters believe the United States has control over its borders. This finding adds to President Biden&#8217;s challenges on this crucial election-year issue. The poll, conducted with 1,500 voters, underscores the skepticism among the electorate regarding border control<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":503,"featured_media":2227694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-66-e1713816628812.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2227693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-66-e1713816628812.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227693","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\/503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2227694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}