Most voters support building wall along Mexico border

More than half of voters are in support of building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a new poll found.

The new Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday found that 52 percent of voters are in support of building the wall along the border. This poll comes just weeks after the Biden administration announced it would waive 26 federal laws to allow border wall construction in Texas, marking the administration’s first use of an executive power often used by former President Trump to fund projects along the southern border.

Forty-four percent of voters said they would oppose the construction of the wall. The topic is largely split along party lines, with Republicans more likely to back it than Democrats.

Ninety-one percent of Republicans support the building of the wall, while 78 percent of Democrats oppose it, the poll said. Independents are divided on whether to build it with 51 percent in favor and 46 percent not in favor.

“Build the Wall, the rallying cry that was vilified and shot down during the Trump administration makes a comeback, buoyed by Republican voters and no doubt resuscitated by an unresolved border crisis,” Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy said in the poll results.

Fifty-five percent of voters think that the number of migrants who are looking for sanctuary in the U.S. is a crisis. Thirty-one percent say it is a problem but not a crisis and 11 percent do not think it is a problem.

In addition, 31 percent say they would welcome migrants in their community. Another 37 percent said while they would like to welcome them, their community does not have the means to accommodate the migrants. Twenty-seven percent said they would not welcome them into their community at all, according to the poll.

The poll was conducted among 1,737 adults from Oct. 12 to 16 and has a margin of error of 2.4 percentage points.