When President Donald Trump signed the Executive order restricting access of Immigrants into the United states there was a general outcry.

There were protests, column inches of newspapers, statements of disagreement from celebrities, business owners, CEOs and regular people. This gave the impression that the decision was an unpopular one and that many Americans were not for it.

But was this really the case?

According to a poll carried out by Reuters/Ipsos, 49 percent of Americans said they approved of the executive order to ban citizens from seven mostly Muslim countries from entering the US while 41 percent reportedly disapproved.

53 percent of Democrats said they “strongly disagree” with the decision. This is in contrast with Republicans who had 51 percent saying they “strongly agree” with the ban, and were more than three times as likely to agree that “banning people from Muslim countries is necessary to prevent terrorism.”

A further breakdown showed that 31 percent of respondents said the ban made them feel safer while 26 percent said it made them feel less safe. 43 percent said they “didn’t know.”

72 percent of Democrats disagreed with the notion that the US should welcome Christian refugees, but not Muslim ones, while only 45 percent of Republicans disagreed.

68 percent of Republicans agreed that the travel ban is setting a “good example” of how to confront terrorism, while 70 percent of Democrats said it’s a bad example.



It has been a rather close-run poll, but it seems more Americans were okay with the ban. This is not to say it has not been heavily criticized in many quarters including notable Republican figures such as senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham.

The senators even released a joint statement condemning the move saying, “This executive order sends a signal, intended or not, that America does not want Muslims coming into our country,”.

You can check out a visual representation of the poll below.


Read more at http://www.herald.ng/americans-actually-want-immigrants-poll/#s95IersRL8yJtQsa.99

I don't know why some frustrated Nigerians want to die because Donald Trump is doing what he was elected to do by protecting his people.

Those too angry and bitter because Trump is president of the world's most powerful country should do like that man down there.

Americans actually love him and voted to him. These were his campaign promises and he won convincingly. His margin of victory is much better than that of obama.

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But generally it is dangerous to live with Muslims except the Yoruba Muslim.

Even the saint among them turns deadly at the slightest provocation

Nice poll . . . The pained minority can protest all they want.

Every sensible person knows this already.

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But generally it is dangerous to live with Muslims except the Yoruba Muslim.

Even the saint among then turns deadly at the slightest provocation

But how did yoruba Muslims get Islam so right ..I have travelled widely I have not seen safer muslims than the yorubas

SalamRushdie:


But how did yoruba Muslims get Islam so right ..I have travelled widely I have not seen safer muslims than the yorubas

honestly, Yoruba Moslems re the best, they don't carry Islam for head like d way Hausas do

ThinkSmarter:
honestly, Yoruba Moslems re the best, they don't carry Islam for head like d way Hausas do

That is why the core north refer to Yoruba Muslims as fake Muslims and kill them along side with Christians, a Yoruba muslim cannot be allowed to lead prayer in a mosque in the north because they call them kafirs and baralabe.They even prefer shiite,amahdiyya,Christians

ThinkSmarter:
honestly, Yoruba Moslems re the best, they don't carry Islam for head like d way Hausas do

E BE LIKE SAY YOU NEVER HEAR ABOUT PROFESSOR ISHAQ AKINTOLA ABI

see as them turn everything to core Hausa Muslim and Yoruba Muslim...tribal differentiation never do us we com dey add religious bigotry... issorait