Trump's national emergency declaration unpopular among majority of Americans
A majority of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the latest poll from the PBS NewsHour, NPR and Marist.
Sixty-one percent of U.S. adults said they do not approve of the president’s national emergency, while 36 percent say they support it. Another 3 percent of respondents said, in the days following Trump’s Friday announcement in the Rose Garden, that they were unsure of how they felt.
Trump has often cited a crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border, where there has been a spike in the number of people caught crossing the border illegally in recent months, many of them from Central America and seeking asylum. However, overall, immigration experts have pointed out, the number of border apprehensions year to year has dropped from their peak in 2000.
When asked whether there was currently a national emergency along the border, a majority of Americans — 58 percent — said they disagreed, based on what they have heard and read. About as many — 57 percent — said the president misused his power when he declared a national emergency to build the wall.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-national-emergency-declaration-unpopular-among-majority-of-americans