Americans want to stop foreign countries like China from purchasing U.S. land and operating critical infrastructure, a new exclusive poll finds.
U.S. farmland purchases by individuals with connections to the Chinese Communist Party have become a recent concern in Congress, prompting a flurry of proposals.
Repeated instances of foreign entities snatching up land – some estimates project they own over 40 million acres – near critical U.S. infrastructure and military installations have deeply exasperated those worries.
And it’s not just lawmakers who are concerned, but everyday Americans too.
A new poll from CRC Research conducted for the 85 Fund shared exclusively with DailyMail.com finds that nearly two in three Americans are sick of the land grabs and want China and other countries banned from doing so.
Exactly 66 percent of respondents indicated they believe countries of concern to the U.S. should not be able to purchase land in the U.S., according to the poll.
It also found that 67 percent of respondents agree with implementing legislation to prevent foreign adversaries from supplying their states with critical infrastructure components.
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