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Iowa Poll: Support increases for Trump's border wall, but Iowans still split

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©Copyright 2019, Des Moines Register and Tribune Co. Support for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall has increased in Iowa during the past year, although…
©Copyright 2019, Des Moines Register and Tribune Co.
Support for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall has increased in Iowa during the past year, although Iowans remain divided on the issue.
A new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows 37 percent of Iowans say the wall should be funded, no matter what else happens with immigration policy — up 7 percentage points compared with January of 2018.
“I’m a veteran. I’ve deployed four times overseas. And every time I’ve gone overseas, we’ve lived in a forward operating base that had walls,” said Don Hughes, a 50-year-old Pulaski resident and truck driver. “Did it stop every insurgent from getting in and doing bad things? No. Did it stop all the contraband coming into the FOB? No. But you couldn’t have a major attacking force come into the FOB because there were barriers, and there were people watching those barriers. Walls work.”
Despite the increase in support in the past year, a nearly equal share of Iowans — 36 percent — say a wall should not be funded under any circumstances. Last year, half of Iowans said it should not be funded under any circumstances.
“We’ve got bigger issues. There are people needing money, needing jobs right now that you hear on the news are not getting paid, all because Donald Trump wants to get this wall built,” said Susan Wells, a 58-year-old Democrat from Iowa City who said she made extra meals for families in her community affected by the 35-day government shutdown, which ended in January.
She’s among the 20 percent of Iowans who say the wall should be funded as part of a broader immigration compromise — a number that has risen from 15 percent a year ago.
The poll of 803 Iowa adults was conducted by Selzer & Co. and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. It was conducted Feb. 10-13 — before Trump declared a national emergency to free up funding for the wall.
On Feb.

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