The Quote Below—More Misinformation from the Media
“Nearly eight out of ten U.S. adults believe immigration is good for the country, the highest level ever recorded. A new Gallup poll found 79 percent of Americans now have a positive view of immigrants, reversing a four-year decline with a dramatic 15-point surge. At the same time, the number of people who want to further reduce immigration has dropped from 55 percent in 2024 to just 30 percent today.
The shift comes as illegal border crossings have dropped sharply, easing public concerns that had fueled the current administration’s drive for stricter enforcement. The surge in support for immigration has rebounded across party lines, with Republicans showing the most significant jump—climbing from just 50 percent last year to 65 percent today. Democrats meanwhile remain overwhelmingly supportive, with 91 percent believing in the virtues of immigration. — Nearly 80% of Americans Think Immigration Is Good for the Country, Tom Sanders, Daily Beast, 7/11/25 [Link]
Fact Check of Above Quote: Daily Beast writer, Tom Sanders, cites this poll Gallup poll to suggest that most Americans are happy with our status quo of mass immigration. The problem with this claim is that the poll doesn’t define immigration. To begin with, it doesn’t specify whether the topic under discussion is legal or illegal immigration. If the question had explicitly mentioned both, the approval level no doubt would have been lower.
Even if we just consider legal immigration, asking if it is “good for good for the country” is a meaningless question unless that immigration is defined. It like asking if fire is a good thing. That depends on the kind of fire you’re talking about. Is it a cozy hearth fire, or a forest fire raging out of control? Indeed, most immigration restrictionists would agree some immigration could benefit our country.
What they don’t accept is the status quo of mass immigration that we have today. For the past 35 years, legal immigration has averaged around one million a year, while illegal immigration has annually surged in the hundreds of thousands. As a consequence, we now have a foreign-born population exceeding 50 million, a record numerical level. Percentage wise, the foreign-born are more than 14 percent of our population, another record. This is one American resident in seven.
The result diversity has been anything but our strength. Extensive research reveals that diversity weakens the social and cultural ties of our people. Most of current legal immigration is not selected on the basis of our nation’s needs, but rather on the family connections of potential immigrants and their relatives now living here. We don’t need mass immigration now to provide workers because AI and automation are advancing rapidly, and will do many jobs now done by humans.
Many people interviewed by pollsters aren’t aware of these realities about mass immigration. They don’t know because the biased mass media strive mightily to keep them in the dark.