AP-NORC poll: Border woes dent Biden approval on immigration

FILE - In this June 26, 2019, file photo, the entrance to the Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas. More Americans disapprove than approve of how President Joe Biden is handling waves of unaccompanied immigrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, and his efforts on larger immigration policy aren’t polling as well as those on other top issues. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File)

A new AP-NORC poll finds about 6 in 10 Americans say the safe treatment of children at the U.S.-Mexico border should be a high priority. About half call border security and stricter enforcement of visas high priorities.

A new AP-NORC poll finds more Americans disapprove than approve of Biden's handling of the situation involving unaccompanied minors detained at the U.S.-Mexico border, though about a third don't have an opinion.

FILE - In this March 30, 2021, file photo, minors inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas. More Americans disapprove than approve of how President Joe Biden is handling waves of unaccompanied immigrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, and his efforts on larger immigration policy aren’t polling as well as those on other top issues. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool)