Jenny Neeley, conservation policy director for Sky Island Alliance, discusses a recent poll on the proposed border wall.Many people have opinions about the U.S-Mexican border, but are those people fully informed?
A new poll conducted by the environmentalist group Sky Island Alliance has found that only 33 percent of those polled--1,000 adults from across the country--have detailed information about the border wall, its infrastructure requirements, cost or environmental impact.
"One of the overarching themes that we found with this poll is that people are incredibly frustrated with the border security situation and the government's handling of that," says Jenny Neeley, conservation policy director for Sky Island Alliance. That means that without any information on the border or border wall,"...most people would support just about anything on the border," Neeley says.
Neeley discusses the poll results with Arizona Illustrated, including an interesting finding: simply showing poll respondents pictures of the border wall and providing them with more detailed information about it caused their support for expanding it to drop.
More informed respondents were more likely to opt for other measures, including strengthening inspections at ports of entry.
Find the poll results here.
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