Biden Faces Increasing Pressure for Border Measures in CBS Poll
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Migrants after entering the United States through a gap in the border wall in Jacumba Hot Springs, California.
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Americans increasingly favor tougher measures to curb immigration at the US border with Mexico, though sentiment is shifting against the practice of border states to send migrants northward, according to a CBS News/YouGov poll.
With Senate negotiations on border policy stuck in a partisan deadlock, the issue has become an early battleground in the 2024 election — spurred by former President Donald Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination.