This week, Townhall reported that a congressional candidate from California had single-handedly patched up a high-profile illegal border crossing with razor wire.
“We are now standing in the place that all the news has been talking about. Many people came here to film this hole in the wall. No one has come and secured this hole in the fence yet. IF you want something done, sometimes you have to do it yourself,” she said.
I secured the border myself.
I’m the only person in America who came to secure the border.
No one else in Congress.
No president.
No border guards.
Nobody in our country would do that.
So I had to do it myself.
I once risked my life to serve our country… pic.twitter.com/jZYooeEY4r
— Kate Monroe, CEO (@KateMonroeCEO) February 21, 2024
“So I decided if no one was going to do something about it, I was going to do something about it,” Monroe told Fox News in an interview. “I bought 400 feet of razor wire and my staff and I hung the wire along the cracks ourselves.”
A majority of Americans – 53 percent – support building a border wall to separate the United States from Mexico, according to a modern Monmouth University poll. On the other hand, 46 percent respondents said they were against it.
This is more than in previous years, including during the Trump administration (via University of Monmouth):
During the Trump administration, support for this project did not exceed 44% and reached only 35%. Support was 48% the first time Monmouth asked this question (September 2015) and 42% the last time the question appeared in one of Monmouth’s national polls (April 2019). Compared to public opinion nine years ago, support for building a border wall increased by 13 points among Republicans (from 73% to 86%) and by 11 points among independents (from 47% to 58%), but decreased by 14 points among Democrats (from 31% to 17%).
A majority of Americans (61 percent) said immigrants seeking political asylum should be required to remain in Mexico while their claims are processed. Thirty-five percent of respondents said illegal immigrants should be allowed to remain in the United States while their applications are processed.
In recent years, the number of Americans who believe that asylum seekers should remain in Mexico has increased (via University of Monmouth):
Five years ago, slightly more supported allowing asylum seekers to wait in the U.S. (41%), while the number who wanted them to remain in Mexico (51%) was slightly lower than today. Support for keeping asylum seekers across the border while their claims are processed has increased among all partisan groups compared to 2019.
A larger share of Americans, 32 percent, now say they believe illegal immigrants are more likely than Americans to commit violent crimes such as rape and murder. In 2019, this percentage was 21%. In 2015, this percentage was 17%. (by University of Monmouth):
The change in opinion that illegal immigrants are more susceptible to violent crime increased the most among Republicans, from just 29% in 2015 to 45% in 2019 and 65% in 2024. This compares to changes in this view among other partisan groups came to delicate was much smaller – from 15% in 2015 to 26% in 2024 among independents and from 10% in 2015 to 12% now among Democrats.
In December, Townhall reported how an illegal Nicaraguan immigrant who had been deported from the United States five times was sentenced to 19 years in prison for raping a woman in Ohio. Shortly thereafter, an illegal immigrant in Colorado who had been arrested and deported multiple times was arrested again after allegedly killing a mother and her son in a car accident.
Earlier this month, an illegal Mexican immigrant who had been deported from the United States five times allegedly killed a 10-year-old child in a hit-and-run crash, which Townhall also reported.
