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For the first time, more than half of Americans support building a wall to reduce immigration

View of Tecate, Mexico, from the American side of the border. (Credit: Unsplash.com/Greg Bulla)

For the first time, a majority of Americans support building border walls to reduce migratory flows to the country, a new survey by Gallup shows. The figure comes as part of a sharp increase in the amount of people who prefer less immigration than more, and broader measures to that purpose.

Significantly expanding the construction of a border wall is the measure that saw the largest increase in support since 2019, even if it's not the most favored one at the moment. Concretely, it saw an increase of 13 percentage points, going from 40% to 53% in the latest edition of the poll.

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