A new Pew Research Center study also found majorities in the U.S. view immigrants as a strength to the country and do not believe that they pose a terrorism risk.
Since the launch of his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump has repeatedly drawn links between immigration and crime, defending his demand for the construction of a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico by repeatedly accusing migrants and asylum seekers of"bringing drugs" and"bringing crime" into the country.
In Canada, 80 percent of people said they believed immigrants were no more to blame for crime, compared with 17 percent who said they believed immigrants in the country were more to blame. Meanwhile in the U.S., 77 percent of people surveyed said they believed the former, while 19 percent said they subscribed to the latter belief.
"These positive views of immigrants are more likely to be held by those who are politically liberal , those who are younger, and people with higher levels of education," she added. However, she noted that there were two exceptions to the trend–Germany and Sweden–where majorities said they viewed immigrants as a strength to the country, but more than half of those polled still said they believed immigrants were more to blame for crime.
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