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Strong border security + increases in selective immigration programs seem workable.
Exactly the same discussion in housing. People like the “idea” of wanting more immigration or more housing but in practice they don’t actually want it anywhere close to the same degree
I think Gallup is peddling bullshit tbh
Might be wrong but it’s got my Selzer senses tingling
Marginal vs. average? High skilled vs. unrestricted?
I'm sure there's a lot of underlying inconsistency, but these positions don't _have_ to be inconsistent, and I bet we'd find a meaningful number of people with slightly-more-nuanced views than these graphs can capture.
I am becoming more and more convinced that these thermostatic swings are more about a segment of the electorate that is reflexively contrarian than about substantial changes in policy preferences
The numbers are quite explainable. Once the border in the South is "closed" Americans are happy with the immigration system and they want the current legal immigration level to persist.
I think this is explainable by people wanting more immigration than Republicans want, less than Democrats want, and also being very fuzzy and incoherent thinkers who fantasize that doing their exact policy preferences will solve all of society's problems
Think they just want a functioning legal immigration system. GOP has been screwing that up for 20 years.
This is not hard to square given the last 4 yrs of mass unvetted illegal immigration due to essentially open borders
That's what ppl are thinking of with the "should it be decreased/increased" question...they know it was high
And you can have too much of a good thing
They want a low level of quality immigration, not your 1 billion dregs of society