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How Many is Too Many?

Early this week, Gallup released a new poll about how satisfied Americans are with the management of U.S. immigration policy. The poll revealed that the percentage of Americans who are “dissatisfied out of a desire for less immigration” has doubled in just two years of the Biden administration — ballooning from 19% in 2021 and 35% in 2022 to 40% in early 2023. It should surprise no one that the nation’s taste for more immigration has soured.

The percentage of Americans “dissatisfied out of a desire for less immigration” has doubled.

This shift in sentiment is due in part to the never-ending line of migrants at our southern border and the nonprofit organizations passing out gift cards to them; not to mention the 2,400 known gotaways per day who run from border enforcement agents. Add to that the audacity of the supposed “refugees” who protested that a luxurious Manhattan hotel was a better fit for them than the shelter our taxpayer dollars provided. The guilt trip about desperate asylum seekers that was poured onto us by open borders advocates now rings hollow. Put simply, President Joe Biden’s policy of loose borders and lax immigration enforcement is not working for the American people. The outright costs to taxpayers, burden on infrastructure, and employment…