This by the Economic Innovation Group, which supports high-skilled immigration (HSI), so the poll results need to be taken with a grain of salt. I anticipate that in the next administration there will be enacted an immigration bill which includes more high-skilled immigration, in the eontext of an explicit strategy to boost economic investment.
:Definition of HSI: “immigrants with a high level of educational achievement or specialized professional skills, such as scientists, medical doctors, computer programmers, engineers, or business finance professionals.”
Seventy-four percent of voters support “allowing more legal, high-skilled immigration to the United States,” versus only 18 percent who oppose it.
Support for HSI is overwhelmingly bipartisan: 71 percent of voters who plan to support President Trump in November and 86 percent of those who plan to vote for President Biden favor increasing HSI.
More than two-thirds of voters in every swing state (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) support increasing HSI.
Most Americans do not believe the U.S. immigration system is designed to benefit them. Only 37 percent agreed that “the U.S. immigration system is currently designed to benefit the U.S. economy, its workers, and its communities.”
Four-fifths of voters believe the American immigration system needs “major changes” or “a complete overhaul.”
Voters overwhelmingly see the economic and competitive advantages of HSI; 70 percent say it benefits the U.S. economy.
The voters least likely to compete with high-skilled immigrants—rural Americans with a high-school degree or less—are those most likely to oppose more HSI.