Late last month, a new poll found that more than 80 percent of voters in New York state say that the influx of illegal immigrants is a “serious problem,” which Townhall covered.
In a follow-up question, 58 percent of respondents said that “New Yorkers have already done enough for new migrants and should now work to slow the flow of migrants to New York.” Not to mention, New Yorkers also indicated that they did not support President Joe Biden’s response to the border crisis, as well as other Democratic leaders.
A new poll from Siena College found that 41 percent of New Yorkers support construction of a wall the length of the southern border with Mexico to deal with the ongoing illegal immigration crisis. Since last year, Texas has sent thousands of illegal immigrants to New York to “share the burden” of the crisis.
On the contrary, 50 percent of New Yorkers oppose building a wall along the border.
In a follow-up question, 42 percent of New Yorkers expressed that they think immigrants take in more resources than they return in economic activity. Forty-eight percent disagreed.
“Over 40 percent of all New Yorkers believe that immigrants take more than they offer society. About a third believe current migrants are dangerous, perhaps even criminal, only want hand-outs and are a source of illegal drugs. But in each of these cases more New Yorkers disagree with, rather than hold, these judgments,” Don Levy, SCRI’s Director, said in the write-up.
“Large majorities of Republicans see immigrants and current migrants as dangerous but Democrats and independents disagree. While a small majority of Republicans say that America no longer needs new immigrants, overwhelming majorities of Democrats and independents say that we do,” he added.
Eleven percent of the New Yorkers surveyed said they were born in another country.
This week, the New York Post reported that Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott said that New York City Mayor Eric Adams “could not last a week” in Texas on the front lines of the border crisis.
“When I first heard that, I thought about Frank Sinatra singing ‘New York, New York’ when he sang ‘If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere.’ Well, the mayor may have made it to be mayor of New York, but he could not last a week in Texas,” Abbott said.