Should immigration be limited through annual quotas?

AI-generated summary, admin reviewed: This initiative proposed controlling immigration through annual maximum numbers and quotas while taking the country’s economic interests into account. The country could no longer enter international agreements that conflicted with those limits, and existing conflicting agreements would have to be renegotiated within three years. Supporters argued that quotas would reduce pressure on housing, infrastructure and employment and restore national control over immigration. Opponents warned that the system would create bureaucracy, restrict employers’ access to workers and threaten free-movement and trade agreements with the European Union. Swiss voters narrowly approved the initiative.
Seed source: Swissvotes federal popular vote dataset.
Swissvotes page: https://swissvotes.ch/vote/580.00
Official result data: https://www.bk.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/va/20140209/det580.html
Vote date: 2014-02-09
Original Swissvotes English title: Initiative «Against mass immigration»
Original German title: Initiative «Gegen Masseneinwanderung»
Swissvotes keyword/additional content: MEI
Swissvotes short-description title: Knappe Mehrheit nimmt Gefährdung der Bilateralen für Einwanderungsbremse in Kauf
Original French title: Initiative «Contre l'immigration de masse»
Année Politique Suisse description: https://anneepolitique.swiss/prozesse/33761
easyvote explainer video (German): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vx2z0QoDOM
easyvote explainer video (French): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ6T4bhdCes
BFS result map (German): https://mapexplorer.bfs.admin.ch/?obs=politic&lang=de#c=indicator&i=vp20140209.prop_oui_580_0
BFS result map (French): https://mapexplorer.bfs.admin.ch/?obs=politic&lang=fr#c=indicator&i=vp20140209.prop_oui_580_0
Official chronology (German): https://www.bk.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/vi/vis413.html
Official chronology (French): https://www.bk.admin.ch/ch/f/pore/vi/vis413.html