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Support for increasing the number of border patrol agents on the U.S.-Mexico border, asked identically in the CES across years.
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: 79% answered “Support” in CES: More border patrols on the Mexican border, 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: Increase border patrols on the Mexican border | Increase border patrols on the Mexican border What do you think the U.S. government should do about immigration? Do you support or oppose each of the following? [Increase the number of border patrols on the US-Mexican border.] Caveat: Same wording and binary scale across years | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: More border patrols on the Mexican border | More border patrols on the Mexican border What do you think the U.S. government should do about immigration? Do you support or oppose each of the following? [Increase the number of border patrols on the US-Mexican border] Caveat: Same wording and binary scale across years | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: More border patrols on the Mexican border | More border patrols on the Mexican border What do you think the U.S. government should do about immigration? Do you support or oppose each of the following? [Increase the number of border patrols on the US-Mexican border] Caveat: Same wording and binary scale across years | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |