A new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal shows “nearly half” of Americans oppose President Obama’s forthcoming executive action on immigration, and only a plurality of Latinos support the measure. The poll found 48 percent of Americans oppose the executive action, the details of which the president is expected to announce Thursday, while just 37 percent support it and 14 percent say they are unsure or have no opinion.
The poll found Democrats support the president’s planned actions more so than Republicans and independents, but their support isn’t near unanimous—just 63 percent of Democrats say they support it, while 11 percent of Republicans and 37 percent of independents agree. And just 43 percent of Latinos say they agree with the measure, with 37 percent opposed though, as NBC News notes, the sample size of 110 Latinos may be too small to render a precise reading on Latino popular opinion.
Read more about the survey here.
An August poll on immigration found a much higher percentage of Americans (71 percent) said they opposed the president “going it alone” on immigration.
