CAP: Americans of All Political Stripes Want Congress to Pass Immigration Reform
Here are the five most recent polls on immigration.
1. Gallup: Dealing with unauthorized immigrants already in the country trumps border security (February 2014)
Gallup’s most recent polling on immigration found that more Americans believe that dealing with unauthorized immigrants living in the United States is more important than securing the nation’s borders. While Americans are almost split on the two issues, with 44 percent in favor of first dealing with the unauthorized and 43 percent in favor of first securing the border, the survey shows a big shift from just a few years ago.
2. CNN/ORC International: Legalizing unauthorized immigrants is our first immigration priority, and Americans support a full pathway to citizenship (February 2014)
Just more than half of all Americans in a CNN/ORC International poll argued that the first priority on immigration should be providing a pathway to legal status for unauthorized immigrants living in the country, while only 41 percent believed that stopping unauthorized immigration should be the top priority. These results stand in sharp relief to similar polling done in 2011 and before ...
4. CBS News: The majority of Americans favor the pathway to citizenship and soundly reject legal-status-only approaches (January 2014)
In a CBS News poll, a majority of Americans—54 percent—felt that unauthorized immigrants should be allowed to become citizens. Importantly, while most Americans are in favor of the pathway to citizenship, they strongly reject approaches that would leave unauthorized immigrants with second-class status: Only 12 percent of respondents believed that unauthorized immigrants should receive legal status but not be able to become citizens. Two-thirds of Democrats supported the pathway to citizenship, while only 43 percent of Republicans did.
5. Fox News: More than two-thirds of Americans support the pathway to citizenship and reject mass deportation (January 2014)
When asked, “Which of the following comes closest to your view about what government policy should be toward undocumented immigrants currently in the United States?”, 68 percent of Americans favored a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants in the country if they meet requirements such as paying back taxes and passing background checks. Support for requiring all unauthorized immigrants to be sent back to their home countries stood at only 15 percent. Support for the pathway to citizenship has increased slightly ...
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/news/2014/03/04/85102/immigration-polling-roundup-americans-of-all-political-stripes-want-congress-to-pass-immigration-reform/
