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Just 23% of Americans say the government is doing a good job dealing with the large number of people seeking asylum at the border, while 73% say it’s doing a bad job.
There are sizable ideological differences over the most pressing priorities for the U.S. immigration system within each partisan coalition.
Nearly four-in-ten Latinos (39%) say they worry that they, a family member or someone close to them could be deported.
Most Latino immigrants say they would come to the U.S. again.
Republicans and Democrats continue to differ over the factors they see as important for being “truly American.”
Republican support for allowing undocumented immigrants to remain legally in the United States has declined.
Latinos agree that the U.S. immigration system needs an overhaul; large shares say it requires major changes or needs to be completely rebuilt.
The share of Americans viewing illegal immigration as a ‘very big’ problem has increased.
Focus groups held across the two nations reveal the degree to which Americans and Britons see common challenges to local and national identity.
91% of Democrats favor granting legal status to immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children; 54% of Republicans say the same.
