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Support for granting legal status to illegal immigrants who have held jobs and paid taxes for several years, asked in the CES across years.
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Latest: 41% answered “Oppose” in CES: Legal status for long-term working immigrants, 2024.
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: Legal status for working, tax-paying illegal immigrants | Legal status for working, tax-paying illegal immigrants What do you think the U.S. government should do about immigration? Do you support or oppose each of the following? [Grant legal status to all illegal immigrants who have held jobs and paid taxes for at least 3 years, and not been convicted of any felony crimes.] Caveat: Wording truncated in the archive; presumably the same item as in 2022 and 2024. | equivalent | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Legal status for long-employed illegal immigrants | Legal status for long-employed illegal immigrants What do you think the U.S. government should do about immigration? Do you support or oppose each of the following? [Grant legal status to all illegal immigrants who have held jobs and paid taxes for at least 3 years, and not been convicted of any felony crimes] Caveat: Binary support/oppose; full wording includes the 3-year and no-felony conditions. | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Legal status for long-term working immigrants | Legal status for long-term working immigrants What do you think the U.S. government should do about immigration? Do you support or oppose each of the following? [Grant legal status to all illegal immigrants who have held jobs and paid taxes for at least 3 years, and not been convicted of any felony crimes] Caveat: Binary support/oppose; same wording as 2022. | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |