According to a recent Gallup poll, 41 percent of Americans worry a “great deal” about illegal immigration. We don’t know why it’s not 100 percent, but 41 percent is the highest it’s been in more than a decade.
Those worrying a “fair amount” accounted for 19% of the sample, while 17% reported worrying “only a little” and an (obviously medicated) 23% were worried “not at all.”
The report breaks down the polled group by political affiliation:
- 68% of Republicans worry about illegal immigration a great deal. That’s way up from 2001 when only 29% of Republicans worried that much.
- Thirty-nine percent of independent voters said they were worried a great deal. That’s less than the Republicans, but independents’ concerns are growing: in 2018, only 30% were greatly worried.
- Democrats, on the other hand, report worrying less about illegal immigration: 44% report worrying not all and only 18% say they are concerned a great deal.
Worried or medicated through drugs or ideology, it doesn’t matter. Soon it will be too late to worry anyway. It will be time to grieve.
For more, see the Gallup website.