Seventy-eight percent of Americans say they would approve of “allowing up to 100,000” Ukrainian refugees into the United States as the process to do just that gets underway. This is the highest level of U.S. public support for admitting refugees that Gallup has found in its polling on various refugee situations since 1939…

The prior high in support for accepting refugees in Gallup polling was in 1999, when 66% approved of receiving “several hundred ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo.” The only other time a majority approved was in 2018, when 51% backed taking “thousands” of refugees from Honduras and other Central American countries.

No other refugee appeal has been supported by even four in 10 Americans, with support ranging from 16% in 1946 for taking in an expanded number of European refugees during World War II to 37% in 2015 for admitting “at least 10,000” Syrian refugees.