President Joe Biden is facing backlash over his handling of the nation’s immigration system, with just 26% of Americans approving of the job he is doing.
According to a new Monmouth University poll, 71% of Americans disapprove of how Biden is handling immigration and the crisis at the border.
The poll also looked at Biden’s overall job as president, finding that his approval rating sits at just 38%, with 58% disapproving. Results were similar for his number two, Vice President Kamala Harris, who had the approval of 35% of respondents and disapproval of 58%.
As for the other branches of government, a measly 14% of Americans approve of Congress’s job performance, while 79% disapprove.
“One thing that Americans of all partisan stripes seem to agree upon is that Congress is broken,” Patrick Murray, the director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute, said in the poll.
The outlook for the country’s future wasn’t much better, with only 17% feeling the US is headed in the right direction, compared to 69% who feel it’s on the wrong track.
The feelings about immigration, the president, and the country come as a record number of migrant encounters occurred at the southern border.
Customs and Border Protection reported last month that there were 302,000 migrant encounters in the month of December, breaking the previous benchmark set in September.
In fiscal year 2023, there were a staggering 2.4 million migrant encounters in total, a new record surpassing the old record set the previous year.