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Support for reducing legal immigration, mostly by 50 percent over ten years through eliminating the visa lottery and ending family-based migration, across CES years; the 2018 version does not include the 50 percent figure.
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Latest: 43% answered “Support” in CES: Cut legal immigration by half, 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: Reduce legal immigration by ending visa lottery and family migration | Reduce legal immigration by ending visa lottery and family migration lottery and ending family-based migration What do you think the U.S. government should do about immigration? Do you support or oppose each of the following? [Reduce legal immigration by eliminating the visa lottery and endi] Caveat: 2018 wording omits the 50 percent over ten years figure | equivalent | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Cut legal immigration by 50 percent over 10 years | Cut legal immigration by 50 percent over 10 years What do you think the U.S. government should do about immigration? Do you support or oppose each of the following? [Reduce legal immigration by 50 percent over the next 10 years by eliminating the visa lottery and ending family-based migration.] Caveat: Wording truncated in the archive but matches the 50 percent policy | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Cut legal immigration by half | Cut legal immigration by half What do you think the U.S. government should do about immigration? Do you support or oppose each of the following? [Reduce legal immigration by 50 percent over the next 10 years by eliminating the visa lottery and ending family-based migration] Caveat: Full wording with 50 percent figure; reference version | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |