Just 14% of Americans favor full amnesty and citizenship for illegal migrants who are either in the country illegally, or are having their cases reviewed for political asylum, according to a new Convention of States/Trafalgar poll published Tuesday.
While 14% favor amnesty and citizenship for both groups and another 15% support it only for those seeking political asylum, a 59.5% majority believe that neither group should be given amnesty and that those denied political asylum and those illegally in the country should be returned to their respective home nations, according to the poll.
The survey of 1,079 American likely general election voters was conducted by the Trafalgar Group from Jan. 9-12 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9%.
"While Democrats continue to pander to Hispanics and pretend, they want open borders and mass illegal immigration, the data overwhelmingly shows that they, as American citizens, want illegal immigrants expelled from the country. And while it is the Biden Administration's responsibility to secure the border and expel those trying to enter illegally–and it has utterly failed to do so for two years–the new Congress has the ability to exercise vigorous oversight and put heat on the White House. Clearly, such oversight has the strong backing of voters," Mark Meckler, President of Convention of States said in a press release announcing the poll's findings. "But our numbers also point out that voters desire immediate action from their state and local officials, and will not tolerate 'blame Washington' rhetoric without substantive local action.
"The fact that Washington is failing does not absolve Governors, especially border state Governors, from immediately taking active steps to protect citizens within their jurisdictions."
Along party lines, Democrats, at 36%, said they did not favor amnesty and citizenship for either group, while 30.6% said they favored it for both groups, and 13.1% said it should just be for those with asylum case reviews.
Twenty percent of Democrats said they were not sure.
Almost three-quarters of Republicans, 71%, said they did not favor amnesty and citizenship for either group with 14.7% favoring it just for those under asylum review, and only 6.1% favoring amnesty and citizenship for both groups, with 8.2% saying they were not sure.
Most unaffiliated voters, 61.9%, said they did not favor amnesty and citizenship for either group, 16.4% said they favored it for those with asylum cases, and 12.9% said they favored it for both groups.
Another 8.9% of unaffiliated voters said they were not sure, according to the data.
As Customs and Border Protection reported Monday that a record 251,000 illegal migrants crossed the United States southern border in December, most of those surveyed, 62.2%, said that state governors have an obligation to step in to address the crisis, with 30% of those surveyed saying they did not have that obligation.
Some 89.2% of Republicans said they have the obligation as opposed to 68.9% of Democrats saying they should not step in, according to the poll.
And 59% of unaffiliated voters said the governors should step in, while 32.4% said they should not.
Almost two-thirds of those surveyed, 62.6%, said that the wall on the southern border should be completed, and is "essential" to national security, with 33.1% opposing the wall's completion.
Most unaffiliated voters, 57.2%, joined the vast majority of Republicans, 92.9%, in wanting the wall finished, compared to 86.1% of Democrats that said the wall should not be completed, the poll showed.
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