Gallop Poll CEO: ‘Forty-Two
Million Seekers of Citizenship or Asylum are Watching to Determine exactly When
and How to Make the Move’ to the US, , 2/10/19.
The chairman and CEO at Gallup has found that 42 million Latin Americans, and 158 million people worldwide, currently want or plan to migrate to the United States.
Jim
Clifton, chairman and CEO at Gallup, asserted his findings based on the results of the
company’s global migration survey.
In
his commentary about the organization’s findings, Clifton asked, “what if there
were 42 million at the border?”
“Gallup
asked the whole population of Latin America. There are 33 countries in Latin
America and the Caribbean. Roughly 450 million adults live in the region.
Gallup asked them, ‘Would you like to
move to another country permanently if you could?’,” Clifton explained.
They found that a whopping 27%
of the 450 million adults that live in the region said “yes.” “Forty-two million seekers of
citizenship or asylum are watching to determine exactly when and how is the
best time to make the move,” Clifton wrote. “This suggests that open borders
could potentially attract 42 million Latin Americans. A full 5 million who are
planning to move in the next 12 months say they are moving to the U.S.”
President Donald Trump responded to
the poll on Twitter on Sunday, saying that it would be a disaster and declaring
once again that we need a wall now.
“I don’t
think the Dems on the Border Committee are being allowed by their leaders to
make a deal. They are offering very little money for the desperately needed
Border Wall & now, out of the blue, want a cap on convicted violent felons
to be held in detention!” Trump added in a subsequent tweet.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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