State of the Union 2024: Where Americans stand on the economy, immigration and other key issues
Ahead of President Joe Biden’s third State of the Union address Americans are focused on the health of the economy and immigration.
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Ahead of President Joe Biden’s third State of the Union address Americans are focused on the health of the economy and immigration.
Just 23% of Americans say the government is doing a good job dealing with the large number of people seeking asylum at the border, while 73% say it’s doing a bad job.
The U.S. Border Patrol had nearly 250,000 encounters with migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico in December 2023.
There are sizable ideological differences over the most pressing priorities for the U.S. immigration system within each partisan coalition.
Since Joe Biden took office in 2021, his administration has acted on a number of fronts to reverse Trump-era restrictions on immigration.
Immigration was one of the five topics most covered by 25 major news outlets in the first 60 days of the Biden administration.
Latinos agree that the U.S. immigration system needs an overhaul; large shares say it requires major changes or needs to be completely rebuilt.
At least 76 of the voting members of the 117th Congress are foreign born or have at least one parent born in another country.
How has immigration enforcement changed under Trump? Here’s a look at the data on border apprehensions, interior arrests and deportations.
In this 2015 post, we explore how Americans’ views of immigration have shifted since the enactment of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act.
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