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Support for increasing spending on border security by $25 billion, including building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, asked in the CES in 2018, 2020, and 2022 with the same wording.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 49% answered “Support” in CES: More border security spending and a border wall, 2022.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| CES: More border security spending and a border wall | More border security spending and a border wall What do you think the U.S. government should do about immigration? Do you support or oppose each of the following? [Increase spending on border security by $25 billion, including building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico] Caveat: Reference wording: $25B border security including wall (text truncated in archive) | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: More border security spending, including a border wall | More border security spending, including a border wall What do you think the U.S. government should do about immigration? Do you support or oppose each of the following? [Increase spending on border security by $25 billion, including building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.] Caveat: Same $25B border security plus wall wording (text truncated in archive) | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: More border security spending and a border wall | More border security spending and a border wall What do you think the U.S. government should do about immigration? Do you support or oppose each of the following? [Increase spending on border security by $25 billion, including building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico] Caveat: Same $25B border security plus wall wording | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |