Americans have named immigration as the single biggest problem facing the United States for the third month in a row, a series of polls from Gallup has found.
The open-ended question posed by Gallup found that 27 percent of respondents said that immigration was the biggest issue facing the country in April, with 28 percent saying the same in February and March, up from 21 percent in January.
Nearly half of Republicans, 48 percent, named immigration as the biggest issue facing the country in April, while 52 and 57 percent said so in March and February, respectively. The share of independents who dubbed immigration as America’s top issue rose to 25 percent in April to reach its record high, while just 8 percent of Democrats agreed.
A growing share of respondents say that the economy is the biggest problem facing the country, but the issue sits in third place behind those who said that…
