Donald Trump made immigration the centerpiece of his campaign and offered a more comprehensive policy outline than on any other issue. In the past, immigration has largely been seen as a positive force for the economy and an essential part of the country´s legacy, according to the terminology of previous presidents. President Trump, on the other hand, is addressing immigration as a major threat to the national security and economy of the American people.
President Trump has sanctioned dramatic reductions to legal immigration during his first year in office. To restrict illegal immigration, one of his key campaign promises is to build a wall alongside the U.S.-Mexico border, which he further wants Mexico to pay for.
The current American view about the US-Mexico border is pretty clear. According to several surveys that were carried out in 2017, there is a nearly two-to-one
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The figure shows that throughout the last four decades the public opinion on this issue have had a tremendous change. In 1986, a survey showed that 80% believed that the Mexican border should have higher patrol to keep illegal immigrants out, while only 15% opposed increasing patrol on the Mexican border. Later in 1993, if the idea of building a fence came forwards, and one can find a significant decline of votes who favored to build the fence (29%), whereas 68% of people were opposing this strategy. In 2006, the views equalized, and one can observe that the favorable opinion off a fence rose to 46% and the opposing decreased to a 48%. In the last survey of 2017, one can see a new trend again. First of all, the term fence has been switch out with “wall” as a result of new immigration policy proposed by the current president Donald Trump. The public opinion is moving back to the same trend as in the 90´s where we see a pattern of 2-1, where only 29% favor, and 68