UPDATE: A Gallup poll released on February 4, 2019 found that 60% of respondents oppose significantly expanding the U.S.’s southern border wall, and 81% support providing a path to citizenship for those here without legal status. A majority (67%) believe that present immigration levels should be increased or stay the same. Only 31% felt immigration levels should decrease.
The Gallup results are in line with the recent Quinnipiac poll noted below.
A January 29, 2019 Quinnipiac poll found that 75% of respondents felt that immigration is good for the U.S., with only 14% disagreeing. Sixty percent of Republicans, 79% of Independents, and 90% of Democrats agreed that immigration benefits the country.
The poll also asked about support for building a wall on the U.S. – Mexico border, and found that 55% oppose the wall. The answers revealed sharp partisan divisions, with most Republicans supporting the wall, and most Democrats and Independents opposing it.
Over sixty percent of poll respondents supported more border security measures, not including the border wall, and 66% opposed the idea of the President invoking emergency powers to construct the wall, with 66% of Republicans joining Democrats and Independents on the latter question.
In addition, a strong bipartisan majority opposed shutting down the government over the border wall issue, with 68% of respondents overall opposed, including 61% of Republicans.
The Quinnipiac poll results echo other recent nationwide polls by multiple pollsters, compiled here.