Immigration Emerges as Top Issue for GOP Voters

Record Number of Immigrants Encountered at Southern Border Amid Ongoing Legislative Negotiations

New Hampshire GOP voters identify immigration as the top issue in the country, with 4 in 10 Republican voters prioritizing it over the economy.
About 7 in 10 GOP voters believe immigrants do more harm than good to the country, and 8 in 10 support building a wall along the southern border with Mexico.
U.S. immigration officials encountered a record 300,000 immigrants at the southern border in December.
Negotiations between the Biden administration and a bipartisan group of lawmakers on legislation to reduce unlawful border crossings have been ongoing for weeks, with details still unclear.
President Biden's migration policies are seen as the top issue in U.S. politics, according to a Harvard University poll.