A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey of 1,007 likely voters finds that 49% opposed deporting all illegal aliens while 45% support it. Lower income and less educated people support deporting all illegals, but the highest income and the most educated individuals oppose it. That isn’t too surprising as illegals tend to be unskilled and most likely to be competing against lower income and less educated people for jobs. Whites and Hispanics are equally divided on the issue, while blacks and others strongly oppose it.
Just as more likely voters oppose deporting illegals, more likely voters support giving amnesty to illegals by at 51% to 43% margin. Democrats strongly support giving them amnesty (73% to 23%) and Republicans oppose (33% to 64%). Whites, blacks, and Hispanics support amnesty to different degrees, but only “other” voters oppose it (and they do so by a large gap (39% to 56%).
A March 2016 survey asks likely voters about letting illegal immigrants vote. At that point, by a very large margin of 67% to 26% they opposed the idea. All groups of likely voters opposed the idea. Given the above survey results, it seems possible that voters would change their position on letting illegals vote.
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