Hard Line Immigration Stand Less Popular with Young Republicans?
The New York Times reports that young Republicans are much more likely to have favorable views of immigration and to support a path to citizenship for immigrants in the United States unlawfully than are older Republican voters, according to a survey published on Tuesday by the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonpartisan research group. The divide could mean trouble in the general election for two leading Republican candidates, Donald J. Trump and Senator Ted Cruz, who have called for mass deportations.
In the survey, 63 percent of Republicans under 30 said they supported giving those immigrants a chance to become citizens if they met certain requirements. Only 20 percent of young Republicans said they would identify and deport them. By contrast, about a third — 34 percent — of Republicans age 65 and over favored deportation, and less than half — 47 percent — said they supported a pathway to citizenship for those immigrants.
KJ