Brilliant segmentation work here. The legal vs illegal framing reveals something most polling misses- that enforcement hawks and reform advocates aren't neccesarily opposed, they just prioritize different bottlenecks. I ran into this confusion last year trying to explain immigration views to overseas colleagues, and the perception gap data clicks now. What throws me is whether mass deportation rhetoric actually matches what teh base wants or if its just media amplification of the most extreme positions.
Great immigration questions I haven't seen before, showing more room for agreement than usually assumed. 90% of Trump voters agree that "properly controlled immigration can be good for America" and 70% that it should be easier for people to immigrate legally (but harder to come illegally).
There are some typical problems here with some of the words. First: "Crisis" is so overused, not just in politics, that it essentially looses its definition and doesn't mean anything.
Second: Legal is what the law defines as such. You can remove all illegal immigration over night if you just change the definition to "noone is illegal". But this is seldom what is actually ment.
Third: Also, I assume most people aren't aware of how legal immigration actually works, so most people also cannot judge how legitimate the current illegal immigration is.
Also, can I mention that this desire for control often just completely ignores the will of the migrant? A lesson I learned is that if you want to influence someone, you need to give them an incentive to interact with our system first. If you declare a bunch of immigration as illegal, it will still happen - just in the shadows because they refuse to interact with the government.
Brilliant segmentation work here. The legal vs illegal framing reveals something most polling misses- that enforcement hawks and reform advocates aren't neccesarily opposed, they just prioritize different bottlenecks. I ran into this confusion last year trying to explain immigration views to overseas colleagues, and the perception gap data clicks now. What throws me is whether mass deportation rhetoric actually matches what teh base wants or if its just media amplification of the most extreme positions.
Great immigration questions I haven't seen before, showing more room for agreement than usually assumed. 90% of Trump voters agree that "properly controlled immigration can be good for America" and 70% that it should be easier for people to immigrate legally (but harder to come illegally).
There are some typical problems here with some of the words. First: "Crisis" is so overused, not just in politics, that it essentially looses its definition and doesn't mean anything.
Second: Legal is what the law defines as such. You can remove all illegal immigration over night if you just change the definition to "noone is illegal". But this is seldom what is actually ment.
Third: Also, I assume most people aren't aware of how legal immigration actually works, so most people also cannot judge how legitimate the current illegal immigration is.
Also, can I mention that this desire for control often just completely ignores the will of the migrant? A lesson I learned is that if you want to influence someone, you need to give them an incentive to interact with our system first. If you declare a bunch of immigration as illegal, it will still happen - just in the shadows because they refuse to interact with the government.