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Support for withholding federal funds from local police who do not report illegal immigrants to the federal government, in the CES 2018 and 2020.
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Latest: 48% answered “Support” in CES: Withhold funds from police not reporting illegal immigrants, 2020.
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: Withhold federal funds from police not reporting illegal immigrants | Withhold federal funds from police not reporting illegal immigrants What do you think the U.S. government should do about immigration? Do you support or oppose each of the following? [Withhold federal funds from any local police department that does not report to the federal government anyone they identify as an illegal immigrant] Caveat: Wording includes explicit description of police not reporting anyone identified as illegal immigrant. | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Withhold funds from police not reporting illegal immigrants | Withhold funds from police not reporting illegal immigrants What do you think the U.S. government should do about immigration? Do you support or oppose each of the following? [Withhold federal funds from any local police department that does not report to the federal government anyone they identify as an illegal immigrant.] Caveat: Item stem as given omits the police-reporting description (likely truncated in the archive); same binary scale. | equivalent | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |