The Voters on Immigration

Immigration Daily has two stories today suggesting that — as we have said often — an enforcement-only approach to immigration will not help a Presidential candidate much with the voters.

A National Immigration Forum analysis of a recent CNN poll states “So pandering to the deportation-only crowd, in which Gov. Romney, Gov. Huckabee, and Sen. Thompson have all engaged in to varying degrees over the past several weeks, doesn’t seem to deliver a win, even in a Republican primary.” To read in full, see here.

Tamar Jacoby writes “The majority of voters – the 60 percent in the middle – are ambivalent and uncertain, undeniably anxious about the influx but also prepared to come to terms pragmatically with the 12 million illegal immigrants in the country.”

KJ