The news and social media feeds us with many scenes of immigration policing. Valal videos of immigrant mothers take sidewalks near their homes, Ice agents news accounts showing Los Angeles schools and social media posts of US citizens charged with government agents, everyone creates a frightening scene. President Trump assures fear by trolling immigrant communities with sinful Valentine’s cardsDangling Self-incentives and implement a troubled strategy that has implemented ignoring judicial administration attempts. Amongst all, many are watching states and local leaders for calm, commitment and support.
In California, someone remains a simple and steady response. Anyone, where, where or how you ask, a leading registered voters in Golden State supporting a curse for those in the state with no documents. In other words, across the partisan passage, and all kinds of different groups and places, most voters have seen a lane of citizenship as a necessary policy recovery, even today.
In August of 2024, several months before the presidential election, the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Study Poll Asked more than 4,000 voters In the entire state if they support or oppose a “citizenship passage for those who have not yet broken immigrants waiting, so far with their taxes, and pass a background check.”
At that time, Harris and Trump campaigns are perfect. Harris’s team has already held some border news conferences, which intensify that increased border security will be part of his administration’s mind. Meanwhile, Trump continued his usual discourse about immigrants, who used to fight that immigrants “bow to the blood of our country. “It is difficult to see who, if any, feel sympathetic to community members who do not allow or commit new generations of American citizens and local work markets.
But even when returning August, 80% of registered voters who responded to the poll supported a trail of citizenship. This includes nearly 60% of polls Republicans, 75% of independents and even 56% of those who seek to vote for Trump. It also includes 75% of those who have earned a high school degree or less, 80% of those who obtained college degrees, and 81% of people aged 401% of the inhabitants of the Bay Area. Across the categories, a primary California voters express support for a citizenship path.
But that was then, before the attack. Before viral videos, the El Salvador’s rendicesthe popular money of one’s own identification. One can reason that before the times, there may be voters more respectful to immigrants because they are distracted by issues and groceries or broad inflation issues. And maybe others may not believe that Trump will truly follow his attacks on immigrant communities.
So in the early May the Berkeley Igs Pollish also asked the survey respondents again about their support for a trail of citizenship. At this time We polled more than 6,000 registered California voters and we entered a small survey experiment. We are confused if the support of the August respondents is very strong because the question is asked to have “good” and “bad” immigrants without permission of crime. So for half of all the respondents in May, we re-ask the same question, but for the second half of the respondents, asking a “passage of those who are not yet immigrants working or to go to school their taxes.”
Our survey has not found statistical differences between two groups. Most California voters think a citizensal passage is the only right thing to do, check background or not.
In addition, we find almost no difference from August to May. Twenty percent of registered voters this month, including nearly 60% of the Republicans, continued to support a citizenship road. Somewhere Between 70% and 85% of every demographic, including respondents under 40, those over 65, those of different rocial groups, those in unions, those who own their homes, men, those in the central valley, the inland empire and even Those on the far north coast all expressed support for a path to citizenship. Consistency has a lot.
If you try bombing the bomb and the aliglwind of executive actions and laws addressed to something primarily to who we are and where we live, a good policy of California’s practical community members
State and local leaders do not design the federal immigration policy, but they must remember these poll data while making decisions on how we can support everything. If it is placed in a vote, a majority of most Californians can support immigration reform, not to discharge mass.
Mr. Cristina Mora and Nicholas Vargas the UC Berkeley professor associated with government institute studies, which Mora serves as co-director.
