Interesting poll! But it gets the Census EO wrong.
- Undocumented immigrants have ALWAYS been included in the Census. Biden changed nothing.
- Trump's EO didn't exclude undocumented immigrants from the Census. It excluded them from apportionment calculations for House districts.
- Undocumented immigrants have ALWAYS been included in the Census. Biden changed nothing.
- Trump's EO didn't exclude undocumented immigrants from the Census. It excluded them from apportionment calculations for House districts.
https://twitter.com/cameron_easley/status/1359480749863415808
This is a continual problem with polling the public on immigration issues. If the pollsters get the basic details wrong, or simply echo the talking points pushed by the politicians who are also getting the details wrong, it makes the poll results incoherent.
A key problem with polling on immigration is that for most Americans, the details of immigration policy are an entirely abstract issue divorced from day-to-day life.
That means what you end up actually polling is not policy, but sentiment as filtered through media consumption.
That means what you end up actually polling is not policy, but sentiment as filtered through media consumption.
One way to get around that is to provide background information before asking the poll question. That can change the answers significantly depending on whether the prompt is either pro- or anti-immigrant, or just based on the inclusion or exclusion of specific facts.
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