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by Megan Brenan POLITICS JUNE 21, 2018
The latest findings are based on a Gallup poll conducted June 1-13, a key time for immigration reform in the U.S. as the House of Representatives debates the issue. The House will vote this week on two pieces of legislation that address several key immigration policy reforms. Among them are the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) protections for immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally at a young age with their parents and the border wall that has been the cornerstone of President Donald Trump's immigration policy.
At the same time, Trump has been under strong bipartisan pressure to amend the "zero-tolerance" policy that resulted in the separation from their parents of more than 2,000 children of migrants illegally crossing the U.S. border from Mexico in recent months. Trump bowed to the pressure on Wednesday, signing an executive order to keep children and their parents in the same location.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/235793/record-high-americans-say-immigration-good-thing.aspx
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)The deplorable nazis
0rganism
(23,970 posts)otherwise, Trump's support wouldn't be holding steady at 40% over the period this poll was taken -- and that's allowing for 5%+ who can somehow hold (or believe they hold) both pro-immigration and pro-Trump positions simultaneously.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)The country wants something, Congress does the opposite.
pansypoo53219
(20,995 posts)so, HIDE that.
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"