Headline Roundup • August 30th, 2022
Is There an 'Invasion' at the Southern Border?
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Fifty-four percent of Americans say there's an invasion at the southern border, according to a recent NPR/Ipsos poll.
Republicans (76%) believe this more than Democrats (40%) and independents (46%) do, and 91% of Republicans who use Fox News (Right bias) as their primary news source believe this vs. 71% of Republicans who have a different primary source, according to the poll. Ipsos said the results indicate an embrace of "misleading information or politically charged rhetoric about immigration," and that views on immigration depend heavily on party affiliation and "media consumption habits."
Approximately 5 million people from over 150 countries have entered the U.S. illegally during Joe Biden's presidency, according to Customs and Border Patrol data. The number of migrant encounters with Border Patrol has risen from around 800,000 in 2019 to over 1.6 million in 2021 and over 1.8 million in 2022. The rate of migrants coming from countries other than Mexico, such as Cuba and Venezuela, is also rising rapidly.
Some reports across the political spectrum, including from NPR and Newsmax (Right bias), framed the data as evidence that Americans are embracing "extreme immigration rhetoric." A Daily Caller report said the pollsters "blamed conservative media for these beliefs among Republicans." That report and others from the right and center, including from NewsNation and Axios (Center bias), focused more on the recent rise in illegal border crossings and migrant deaths than left-rated sources did.
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A majority of Americans, including a plurality of Democrats, believe there is an invasion occurring at the southern border, a Thursday poll from Ipsos and NPR found.
Overall, 54% of Americans believed it is true or “somewhat true” that the U.S. is experiencing an invasion at the southern border, while half of Americans believed that migrants carrying fentanyl across the border were responsible for rising drug deaths and 42% believe the U.S. has an open border policy, the poll found, interpreting “true” and “somewhat true” responses to denote agreement with the...
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More than half of Americans say there's an "invasion" at the southern border, according to a new NPR/Ipsos poll, part of a broader decline in support for immigrants overall.
The poll also found that large numbers of Americans hold a variety of misconceptions about immigrants — greatly exaggerating their role in smuggling illegal drugs into the U.S., and how likely they are to use public benefits, for example — as false and misleading claims about immigration gain traction.
Republicans are more likely to hold negative views of immigrants. But the poll...
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott claims that President Biden’s failure to faithfully execute the immigration laws enacted by Congress has violated Article IV, § 4 of the U.S. Constitution, which provides that “[t]he United States . . . shall protect each [State in this Union] against Invasion.”
The border crisis hit a new record in May 2022, which saw the largest number of illegal border crossers along our southern border since CBP began keeping track in 2000, and these unprecedented numbers are overwhelming local communities across Texas.
Abbott has decided to attempt to exercise his state’s authority under Article...
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