Republicans and Democrats have never been further apart in their views of immigrants than they are currently. Democrats and those who lean to the Democratic Party overwhelmingly say immigrants are a strength to the nation (83% say this); just 11% say immigrants burden the United States. Among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, 38% say immigrants strengthen the country, while nearly half (49%) say they burden it.
![Partisan gap in views of immigrants as wide as at any point in at least 25 years](http://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/FT_19.01.29_ImmigrantsBurden_Partisangap.png)