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Poll Finds a Boost for Obama on Handling Immigration (Path to Citizenship favored by majority)
ABC News ^ | 02/06/2013 | Greg Holyk

Posted on 02/06/2013 7:35:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Public approval of Barack Obama’s handling of immigration has jumped to a career high in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, buttressed by majority support for a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and, much more broadly, endorsement of stricter border control.

While the president lacks majority approval on the issue overall, slightly more Americans now approve than disapprove of his approach, by 49 vs. 43 percent. Obama was underwater on the issue – just 38 percent approved, while 52 percent disapproved – as recently as last July. See PDF with full results, charts and tables here.

In terms of specific policies, an overwhelming 83 percent support stricter border control, including 64 percent who are “strongly” supportive; only 15 percent are opposed. Fewer, 55 percent, also favor a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, with 41 percent opposed.

GROUPS – There are vast differences among groups, underscoring the president’s advantage on the issue among nonwhites generally and Hispanics in particular, and the Republican Party’s challenges in finding support within the party for an immigration policy that can boost its support among Hispanics.

Specifically, 67 percent of Hispanics and 71 percent of nonwhites overall approve of Obama’s handling of immigration, compared with 38 percent of whites. And a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants is supported by 82 percent of Hispanics and 71 percent of all nonwhites, as well as by nearly seven in 10 Democrats and just over half of independents. It’s supported by fewer than half of whites, 47 percent; Republicans, 42 percent; and by just 37 percent of adults who describe themselves as very conservative politically.

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KEYWORDS: 113th; 2013polls; bho44; bhoillegals; citizenship; illegals; immigration; obama
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To: SeekAndFind

Let me guess how the first two questions were worded:

Question 1:
YES or NO, “Do you believe that poor, innocent immigrant children who have spent their entire adolescent lives here in America should be allowed to stay in America permanently?”

Question 2:
“Or, are you a heartless SOB that thinks poor children should be RIPPED from their parents hands and forced to live in squalor in some unfamiliar, unknown country which speaks a foreign language which they neither understand nor comprehend, thereby almost ensuring their demise and death? Well...do you think like this you bigot...YES or NO, which one is it?”


21 posted on 02/06/2013 10:09:00 AM PST by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: ExTxMarine

remember that girl who was at a local council meeting or something testifying and she perjured herself when she stated she couldn’t speak spanish?

The media is lying about all the polls, I hope the low information voters realize this.

no one has mentioned automatic birthright citizenship


22 posted on 02/09/2013 11:27:27 PM PST by jdirt
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To: ExTxMarine

remember that girl who was at a local council meeting or something testifying and she perjured herself when she stated she couldn’t speak spanish?

The media is lying about all the polls, I hope the low information voters realize this.

no one has mentioned automatic birthright citizenship


23 posted on 02/09/2013 11:27:42 PM PST by jdirt
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