Poll: Majority opposes deporting Dreamers

Voters overwhelmingly support allowing undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to stay in the country, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, placing President Donald Trump’s decision to wind down the controversial Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program at odds with public opinion.

A majority of voters, 58 percent, think these undocumented immigrants, sometime known as Dreamers, should be allowed to stay and become citizens if they meet certain requirements — a sentiment which goes well beyond the existing DACA program. Another 18 percent think they should be allowed to stay and become legal residents, but not citizens. Only 15 percent of voters think these undocumented immigrants should be removed or deported from the country.

Support for allowing these immigrants to remain in the U.S. spans across party lines: 84 percent of Democrats, 74 percent of independents and 69 percent of Republicans think they should stay.


http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...42343?lo=ap_c1

This is typical,

the reality is that most Americans do not even know how the immigration system works. They all think that illegal immigrants are lazy and have not "applied" to become citizens and that the reason they have not, is so that they can avoid paying taxes...