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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 everyone asked, including non-answers. 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 |