Voters: Yes, they’re ‘illegal,’ and they contribute ‘violent crime’

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Voters reject the effort to politically correct President Joe Biden’s use of the word “illegal” to describe immigrants who crawl across the Mexico-U.S. border without authorization, and they also believe that those immigrants contribute to violent crime in the country.

In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey shared with Secrets, 62% said the “best way” to describe unauthorized border crossers is to call them “illegal immigrant” or “illegal alien.” Far fewer preferred the terms “asylum-seeker” or “undocumented migrant.”

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