The following graph depicts immigration sentiments by various demographics as measured by doubling the percentages who want immigration “increased a lot”, adding to it the percentages who want it “increased a little”, subtracting from that the percentages who want it “decreased a little”, and finally subtracting from that twice the percentages who want it “decreased a lot”:
Even though the public is broadly sympathetic to a reduction in immigration into the US, the odds are long that anything will be done to stem the flow. Quite the opposite, because society’s winners–the educated, the affluent, the left–are more sanguine about immigration than the losers in contemporary America are.
