Thread: Majority in Leading EU Nations Support Trump-Style Travel Ban: Poll

Majority in Leading EU Nations Support Trump-Style Travel Ban: Poll

Feb 8 2017, 10:44 am ET
by Alastair Jamieson

A majority of Europeans would support a Trump-style ban on further migration from mainly Muslim countries, according to a poll of more than 10,000 people in 10 countries.

An average of 55 percent of those surveyed for London-based think tank, Chatham House, agreed that immigration from Muslim-majority countries should be halted.

The poll released Tuesday comes after a bruising 18 months that have seen a string of terrorist massacres linked to radical Islam as well as record-setting levels of migration that have created social tensions across the continent.

Majorities in all but two of the 10 countries polled supported a ban, ranging from 71 percent in Poland, to 53 percent in Germany, 47 percent in the United Kingdom and 41 percent in Spain. In no country did the percentage that disagreed surpass 32 percent.

Chatham House called the findings "striking and sobering" and said in a news release that the figures "suggest that public opposition to further migration from predominantly Muslim states is by no means confined to Trump's electorate."

The poll, carried out before President Trump took office and implemented his executive order on immigration, also found that the issue crossed the political spectrum — three-quarters of respondents in support of a ban self-classified as right-wing and more than a third said they were left-leaning.

Support for a ban is also higher among older Europeans than younger ones, and there's an educational divide: less than half of all college graduates supported further migration curbs.

The Chatham House poll, conducted with Kantar Public, surveyed samples of over-18s in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain and the U.K. Fieldwork was carried out between Dec. 12, 2016, and Jan. 11, 2017, and involved 10,195 respondents.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/eur...n-poll-n718271

All migration needs to curb, halt, subside. Citizens of nations need to devote themselves and their investments to fixing their own countries. It's very important. It is a two-sided coin. We don't need the talent, developed countries like the USA do not need the "best and brightest" from other countries. We really don't. Their countries need them. They really do.

Furthermore, the notion that immigration into the United States consists of the "best and brightest" is simply not true to begin with. 57% of all legal immigrants into the US are on welfare. So working up the chain from that massive number, only a few of the "best and brightest" are even able to sustain themselves successfully in the United States. Even many of the H1B visa workers live in subsidized government housing in the US. It's nuts!! Insanity. Madness.

Thank your "tech world". They're the primary drivers of this bull crap. When you use your IPhone, just know that it contributed to your parents being laid off, your still living in the basement on their health insurance at 25, and when you can move out, get your own place, and a real job, you'll be called upon to pay off the $20 trillion national debt through the mandated income tax.

I hope the Facebook app on your IPhone was worth it.