Immigration Reform 2015: Undocumented Immigrants Should Get Citizenship, Say 83% Of Iowa Democrats In New Poll

Likely voters in the early presidential battleground state of Iowa are sharply divided along party lines when it comes to U.S. immigration reform. Just 34 percent of Republicans said the U.S. should give immigrants in the U.S. illegally a path to citizenship, while 83 percent of Democrats said undocumented immigrants should be allowed to apply for permanent residency, a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday indicated.
Peter A. Brown, the poll’s assistant director, described the partisan divide as “striking” in a statement. “Ideas that are part of Democratic orthodoxy are an anathema to Republicans, and vice versa,” Brown said. “Democrats think illegal immigrants should be able to stay in the United States and eventually become citizens. Republicans don’t.” The poll also found 46 percent of Republicans said undocumented immigrants should be forced to leave the U.S., compared to 8 percent of Democrats.
Brown added voters in Iowa, which will play host to the country’s first presidential caucuses in February, often regarded as an indicator of how voters might lean in national elections, are “a perfect example of just how differently Democrats and Republicans see completely different worlds.”
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