A Fox News poll shows overwhelming support for Arizona’s immigration law on the eve of the U.S. Supreme Court’s hearing on the law’s merits next Wednesday.
The Arizona law that has been challenged by the Obama Justice Department passed in July 2010 and makes illegal immigration a state crime. It gives law enforcement officials the right to stop and detain anyone who cannot prove his or her immigration status.
The poll found that 65 percent of all voters favor the law while only 31 percent oppose it, while 80 percent of Republicans and 46 percent of Democrats do.
And independents favor the law by a 40-percent margin (67-27 percent).
Broken down by region, voters living in the West support the law by 72 percent, while those living in the Midwest do by 61 percent and those living elsewhere in the country do by 61 percent.
