A majority of American voters think President Donald Trump’s executive order to temporarily suspend travel from terrorist havens in the Middle East was the right decision.
In a Rasmussen Reports poll released Monday, 57 percent of likely American voters came out in favor of Trump’s temporary ban of refugees from terror havens in the Middle East and North Africa. Almost the same exact number, 56 percent, agreed with prohibiting regular residents of those countries from visiting the United States.
Only 33 percent opposed the ban on refugees and just 32 opposed the ban on visitors. Unsurprisingly, of the likely voters polled, 82 percent of Republicans backed the order, a figure that drops to 59 percent when counting voters not affiliated with either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party.
On the other hand, 53 percent of Democrat do not approve of the order.
White House policy director Stephen Miller reportedly told employees not to pay attention to the hysterical media and to remind themselves that the public is in full support of the executive order signed Friday.
And the figures have not changed substantially from last August, when Trump first forwarded the idea of the temporary suspension. At the time, 59 percent of voters supported the move of a temporary immigration ban from dangerous regions of the world. The order listed seven Muslim-majority countries as part of the ban: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Sudan and Somalia.
Miller appeared on CBS’s “This Morning on Monday” to lay out the next stages of the plan.
“We’re going to take the next 30 days to develop a new set of screening protocols to try and ensure that people entering our country, particularly on a permanent basis, truly love and support the United States of America,” Miller said. “There’ll be a 60-day period where countries will be asked to comply with the new directives. Countries that are in compliance will have regular, ordinary and routine migration with the United States.”
For Miller, those screening protocols are necessary to exclude individuals who promote hatred and violence.
The Rasmussen Reports survey was conducted from Jan. 25-26, which is several days before the protests of the Trump order that took place over the weekend. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points with a 95 percent confidence level.
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