Poll Shows America Ain't Feelin' Immigrants Like That No More, Real Talk
The streets are talkin': Trump's policies got folks scared and changin' the way they see the U.S.

Aight, so check it. This new poll droppin' some truth bombs. Says more and more Americans ain't feelin' like the U.S. is that welcoming spot for immigrants no more. Straight up, the vibe done changed. This AP-NORC poll, they hit up folks and found that almost two-thirds think America used to be the place to be, but now? Nah, fam.
And it ain't just white folks feelin' this way. About a third of everybody, and almost 60% of Latino folks, say they or somebody they know been touched by Trump's immigration crackdown in the last year. That's heavy. Almost half the Latino adults say they carryin' they papers now, just to avoid gettin' snatched up by ICE. Feel me?
This all started after Trump started that whole “largest deportation operation in US history” thing, sendin' ICE agents and even the military into neighborhoods to scoop folks up. And it ain't been peaceful. Remember them two citizens in Minneapolis, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, gettin' popped by ICE/CBP for protestin'? That's wild.
This dude Reid Gibson, a retiree from Missouri, said it best: “This is not a good country for immigrants any more.” The poll showed that only a quarter of adults think America still welcomes folks, and one in ten think it never did. That's a damn shame.
Then they asked about birthright citizenship, that whole thing where kids born here are automatically citizens. Trump tried to kill that with an executive order, but the courts blocked it. Most folks (65%) think kids born here should be citizens, no matter what, and 75% agree if they parents here legally on work visas. But only 49% think that should apply to kids born to undocumented parents. That's where it gets tricky.
The AP said Democrats were more likely to know somebody affected by the crackdown, and those folks were more likely to say America ain't welcome no more. Duh. The streets been knew this.
This lady Kathy Bailey from Illinois said her swim class is trippin'. Two naturalized citizens started carryin' their passports everywhere. One of 'em, from Latin America, is scared she'll stick out in her white neighborhood. “She’s an American citizen now, but she’s so scared that she has to carry her passport,” Bailey said. “She’s just another sweet old grandmother swimming at five in the morning.” That's the real. Fear is real, the struggle is real, and this ain't the America we grew up hearin' about.

