Breaking: Americans support a path to
citizenship.
About six in 10 support a new pathway
to citizenship for illegal immigrants, according to a new poll from NBC News and Wall Street Journal. And that
number jumps to a whopping 74 percent if you qualify that the undocumented
immigrants must take steps like paying back taxes.
The very same poll, though, also asked
people whether they support legal status -- shy of citizenship -- for
illegal immigrants. Support for this, somewhat amazingly, is just 39 percent,
with 48 percent opposed.
In other words, huge majorities support
a path to citizenship. But on a path to legal status, it's reversed. What?
If you're confused, you're not the only
ones. So are the American people. And with President Obama set to announce his big immigration executive action on
Thursday night, his biggest public-perception hurdle is a conflicted and
uncertain American public that offers these kinds of contradictory emotions.
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