Sixty percent of Americans in a new poll go back an eight-year path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, a sign of support as Democrats try to pressure President biden
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According to the Politico / Morning Consult poll released on Wednesday, 32% of registered voters “strongly support” an eight-year path to citizenship, while another 28% “somewhat support” one. Twenty-four percent are opposed to such a path, of which 14 percent are opposed to a “strongly”. Sixteen percent had no opinion.
The poll comes at a time when Democrats face an uphill battle to get Biden’s plan to the finish line.
Immigration has been the policy’s third track, with lawmakers in Congress declaring for years that they want to pass comprehensive immigration reform, only to fail due to party fights.
The Democratic Bill seeks to provide a path to citizenship for young people brought to the US by their parents as children, known as Dreamers, allowing immigrant rural workers and those with Temporary Protection Status to quickly win green cards and undocumented immigrants to obtain green cards after five years.
Each group could try to obtain citizenship three years after receiving the green card.
Research shows that aspects of the bill other than the path to citizenship also have the support of most Americans, including providing funding to process a backlog of asylum applications by 51 percent, establishing refugee processing infrastructure in Central America – 54 percent – and providing funding for more immigration judges, at 53 percent.
Despite the support, the White House is expected to have a hard time getting votes from the Republican Party for the package, which several Republican lawmakers have already criticized as an effort to reverse the policies of the Trump administration.
The Politico / Morning Consult poll polled 2,013 registered voters from February 19 to 22 and has a 2 percent margin of error.