Arizonas new immigration law SB 1070 put immigration back on the front burner and Americans of all political persuasions are reconsidering their attitudes. Do immigrants help or hurt the United States? Do they help or hurt the economy? And what exactly do voters want Congress to do about immigration if reform what kind of reform?
Does it make a difference if they are skilled or unskilled legal or illegal?
The new poll surveys attitudes of Republican Democrat and perhaps most important independent voters.
Leading Republican pollster Glen Bolger partner and cofounder of Public Opinion Strategies went into the field to ask just two weeks after passage of the Arizona law.
Whether or not Congress decides to tackle immigration this year the findings paint a fresh nuanced portrait of American attitudes.
Poll results
Executive version
Pollster memo
Key findings - Republican voters
Pollster
ImmigrationWorks partnered with the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition Americans for Immigration Reform the National Restaurant Association and the American Council on International Personnel to produce the poll.
Executive version
Pollster memo
Key findings - Republican voters
Pollster
ImmigrationWorks partnered with the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition Americans for Immigration Reform the National Restaurant Association and the American Council on International Personnel to produce the poll.
