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ICYMI: Immigration Hub Poll in Semafor: “Harris should focus on paths to citizenship, group says”

August 2, 2024

Immigration Hub’s new memo with recent poll findings shows voters overwhelmingly support executive action that provides legal status and paths to citizenship for Dreamers and undocumented spouses and children of U.S. citizens was featured in Semafor.

WASHINGTON, DC –  Today, Immigration Hub’s new memo with recent poll findings shows voters overwhelmingly support executive action that provides legal status and paths to citizenship for Dreamers and undocumented spouses and children of U.S. citizens was featured in Semafor. Voters in battleground states continue to support a balanced approach to immigration that includes a forward vision for the immigration system in contrast to the Republican Party’s mass deportation plans.

Key results of the poll conducted by Global Strategy Group (GSG) and BSP Research show that voters prefer (66%) a balanced approach to the immigration system and report high levels of support for policies addressing both border security and paths to citizenship and legal status for long-settled undocumented immigrants. These findings indicate an opportunity for Vice President Harris and Democrats to motivate key voting blocs by continuing to elevate her record on border security, keeping families together and driving a bold vision to deliver a pathway to citizenship. This winning message will effectively build a new energized coalition of Harris voters that will give her an advantage over Donald Trump.

An excerpt of the memo states:

According to a recent report, the Harris campaign will also be attacking Trump’s mass deportation plans and “elevating the Biden administration’s moves to grant legal protections to long-term, undocumented spouses and children of American citizens.” This is a winning strategy that will build a new and energized coalition of Harris voters. In a new Immigration Hub poll conducted by Global Strategy Group and BSP Research, battleground voters overwhelmingly support the executive actions expanding legal pathways to Dreamers and undocumented spouses and children of U.S. citizens.

While the executive action on limiting asylum has support (56% v. 29%), the executive actions on keeping families together (spouses and Dreamers/DACA) is more motivating to key electoral constituencies that Democrats need to show up in November. Voters who are either voting for, or open to voting for, President Biden were asked about whether these immigration actions are motivating reasons to vote for him. Half of these voters found the President’s actions on keeping families together (spouses, Dreamers/DACA) to be a motivating reason to vote for him (50% makes them more motivated to vote/42% no impact/8% less motivated), while just over a third of voters found the executive action on limiting asylum to be a motivating reason (37% more motivated/55% no impact/8% less motivated).

What’s been true in repeated polling is that the majority of voters support a balanced approach to addressing immigration – that is to say, they want to hear that candidates have a plan to manage the border in an orderly and humane way AND offer pathways to citizenship for Dreamers and undocumented immigrants in the country. In fact, 66% of battleground voters surveyed supported a balanced approach “that includes both border security and protects Dreamers, providing them and other eligible immigrants who have been here for many years a pathway to citizenship.”

Read the full memo

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