Many folks are frustrated with our immigration debate. I wrote about how it could be different using Canada as a model where liberals and conservatives maintain productive disagreements by treating immigration like any other policy to benefit society. There is no reason this can't happen in the US
Canadians have confidence in the government's policy on border security, and on the broad public benefits of immigration.
Many folks are frustrated with our immigration debate. I wrote about how it could be different using Canada as a model where liberals and conservatives maintain productive disagreements by treating immigration like any other policy to benefit society. There is no reason this can't happen in the US
Canadians have confidence in the government's policy on border security, and on the broad public benefits of immigration.
It was great to talk to Rogé Karma of @theatlantic.bsky.social about my immigration research for his excellent piece on "The Most Dramatic Shift in U.S. Public Opinion." As he concludes rightly, "the current hawkish national mood is not the fixed end point of American popular sentiment."
The size and speed of the immigration backlash over the past four years are nearly unheard-of.
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Thanks to @johnsides.bsky.social, I was also able to track down the partisan differences in immigration opinion based on Gallup's longest-run series. This is the best evidence I've seen that D & R voters did not disagree on the issue until 2001 or even 2014 really:
One thing I did was add uncertainty to the commonly used Gallup numbers about the change in public opinion. Folks often get into heated discussions about why support for a certain policy dropped by 3%, but such small differences are often not meaningful:
I've written about the great post-2020 reversal of US positivity toward immigration, about why voters and politicians resist freer immigration even on the left, and why governments are becoming hostile to international students despite their benefits: goodauthority.org/news/why-ame...
No government can take public trust on immigration for granted. So what's behind the recent shift in U.S. views on immigration?