{"id":16392,"date":"2012-06-19T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/wide-partisan-divide-over-immigration-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:42:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:42:22","slug":"wide-partisan-divide-over-immigration-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2012\/06\/19\/wide-partisan-divide-over-immigration-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Wide Partisan Divide Over Immigration Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A majority of Americans (69%) agree with the statement \u201cwe should restrict and control people coming to live in our country more than we do now;\u201d 28% disagree. The percentage disagreeing with this statement has edged up five points since 2009 and now stands at an all-time high.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much of the change has been among Democrats and independents. Currently, about six-in-ten Democrats (58%) favor greater restrictions on immigration, compared with 84% of Republicans, a divide of 26 percentage points. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the number of Republicans saying this has changed little over the past decade, the percentage of Democrats agreeing with the statement has dropped sharply. Among independents, 77% agreed in 2009 that greater restrictions on people coming to live in this country were needed. That is down to 69% today.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When these questions were first asked twenty years ago, there was virtually no difference between the views of Republicans (78% agree), Democrats (74%) and independents (75%). <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2012\/06\/04\/section-8-values-about-immigration-and-race\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than eight-in-ten Republicans (84%) say the nation should impose tighter restrictions on immigration, compared with about six-in-ten Democrats (58%). 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