Gallup has released the results of this year’s poll asking whether people want immigration levels increased, decreased, or kept the same. Since the “kept the same” answer in almost all cases is really just a different way of saying “don’t know,” it’s the ratio of decreased to increased that really tells us anything. The results are 50-14, more than three to one in favor of reductions, with support for reduction up 11 points from last year. Republicans, of course, favor reductions the most, by more than 5-1, but even independents and Democrats favor less immigration by about 3-1.

Poll results don’t automatically translate into votes, of course, but I just don’t see how Senator Schumer thinks he can move a bill providing for amnesty and increased immigration in this environment.