Poll: Latino Voters Overwhelmingly Support Obama’s Immigration Actions

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Poll: Latino Voters Overwhelmingly Support Obama’s Immigration Actions

by Adrian Carrasquillo at BuzzFeed

http://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/poll-latino-voters-overwhelmingly-support-obamas-immigration

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Latino voters have Obama’s back again.

That’s according to a new poll by Latino Decisions, for Presente.org and Mi Familia Vota, the first of Latino voters since Obama announced sweeping executive actions, given to BuzzFeed News ahead of its announcement on Monday.

The poll found that 89% of Latino voters support Obama’s decision to give temporary legal status to nearly five million undocumented immigrants. That level of support surprised Latino Decisions co-founder Matt Barreto, who noted the figure is higher than initial support of the president’s 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protected undocumented youth brought to the country as children from deportation and allowed them to receive work permits.

“This is the most unified we have seen Latino public opinion on any issue,” Barreto told BuzzFeed News. “DACA registered 84%, this is even higher. The White House was smart to put this step to protect parents — almost nobody in the Latino community is going to say they don’t support a policy to keep parents and children together.”




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