Pew Research's
latest poll finds that Donald Trump is
leading the GOP down the path to nowhere on his crusade to end birthright citizenship.
Most Americans (60%) oppose the idea of changing the U.S. Constitution to prohibit children of those who are not legal residents from becoming citizens; 37% favor changing the Constitution to end “birthright citizenship.”
Democrats oppose ending the birthright citizenship by 75 to 23 percent, while a slim majority of Republicans favor banning it, 53 to 44 percent. Naturally, Trump is stoking a position that the GOP base supports but most Americans vehemently oppose.
But where Trump is most definitively on the wrong side of the immigration debate is when it comes to his calls for mass deportation. Fully 74 percent of Americans support allowing the undocumented to stay legally.
Large majorities in both parties continue to favor a way for allowing undocumented immigrants to stay in the U.S. legally, if certain requirements are met. About two-thirds of Republicans (66%) say people in the U.S. illegally should be allowed to stay if they meet certain requirements, while 32% say they should not be allowed to stay legally. By nearly a factor of five-to-one (80% to 17%), Democrats say undocumented immigrants should be allowed to stay in the U.S. legally, provided certain requirements are met.