A new Pew Research poll finds that most American citizens believe immigrants are helping the country.

In a poll released earlier this week, 45 percent of all voters responded they "believe immigrants are making American society better in the long run," while just 37 percent answered in the opposite fashion. Another 16 percent insisted they believe immigrants have very little overall impact.

Researchers note the figures are virtually the exact opposite of what they were just a decade ago, when 52 percent of all respondents to the same inquiry replied they believe immigrants are a burden because "they take our jobs, housing and health care." Back then, only 41 percent of interviewees believed that immigrants "strengthen our country with their hard work and talents."

The issue of immigration has again become a hot-button political topic, with leading 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump recently deriding immigrants now in the U.S. as "rapists and killers."

The poll also concludes Trump's otherwise divisive rhetoric has only resonated with three specific sectors: whites, Republicans, and the less educated.

Overall, 43 percent of whites argued immigrants make society worse, while 41 percent responded they make it better. Meanwhile, 53 percent of Republicans believe immigrants make life worse for everyone, as do 46 percent of those with just a high school diploma or less.

Conversely, 55 percent of all Democrats and 54 percent of Millennials believe immigrants are a positive force in society, with 61 percent of all Hispanic voters in agreement.

But apparently, Trump and his supporters refuse to be swayed by the numbers. The GOP front-runner has made little effort to expand his base into the land of moderate voters and continues to cater to a constituency of white, less educated voters.

If elected, he recently vowed it will take him less than two years to deport some 11 million immigrants.