I don't have time for a longer post now, so here is a quick one. In 1996, 2004, and 2014, the General Social Survey asked for reactions to the statement: "America should take stronger measures to exclude illegal immigrants." Options were strongly agree, agree, neither agree nor disagree, disagree, strongly disagree. The results:
SA A N D SD
1996 44 29 13 6 2
2004 31 37 16 11 3
2014 24 33 16 18 4
The balance of opinions was always on the "agree" side, but there was a substantial change: the total agree minus disagree went from 65 to 54 to 35. Unfortunately, the question hasn't been asked since then. The change could be because people became less concerned about illegal immigration or because they came to think that the government was doing a better job in controlling it. I would guess that the first was more important, since I don't recall any changes in policy that got much attention in the media.
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