Poll Shows Rising Republican Opposition to Legal Mass Migration
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Neil Munro20 Apr 2026295
Almost 60 percent of Republican voters want fewer or no legalized migrants, according to a new poll for The Economist magazine.
The poll showed that 15 percent of GOP voters prefer zero legalized migrants, while 42 percent want fewer legal migrants, says the April 8-10 poll of 1,748 adults by YouGov. Only 5 percent want more legalized immigrants each year.
The trend in the GOP is bad news for business lobbies and legislators — such as Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL) and Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) — who are pushing for a much greater inflow of wage-cutting, rent-raising migrants.
But there is a deep partisan divide in the migration polls.
A plurality of Democrats want more legal immigrants, according to the YouGov poll. Thirty-eight percent of Democrats want more legalized migration, and only 8 percent want less legal migration. Just two percent want zero migration.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/04/20/poll-show-gop-opposition-to-legal-migration/
