A recent poll cited by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) found that 67 percent of registered voters are “concerned” about illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexican border. Thirty-eight were “very concerned.”
Summarizing the results, CIS noted that “Males were more concerned than females (69 percent to 65 percent), and the older respondents were, the more likely they were to be concerned: 75 percent of those aged 65 and older voiced concern about illegal migrants at the U.S.-Mexico line, compared to just 52 percent of those aged 18 to 34, with other age groupings falling somewhere in between.”
The poll also found that more respondents trusted Republican to fix the problem than Democrats, but it also revealed a slippage of that trust toward Republicans in recent months. The CIS summary suggested that this may be due to failure by the GOP to articulate and promote proposals to deal with the border.
Read more at cis.org