It would be
something of an understatement to say that Latino voters support President Obama's executive action on immigration:
The poll found that 89 percent of Latino voters support Obama’s decision to give temporary legal status to nearly five million undocumented immigrants. That level of support surprised Latino Decisions co-founder Matt Barreto, who noted the figure is higher than initial support of the president’s 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protected undocumented youth brought to the country as children from deportation and allowed them to receive work permits.
“This is the most unified we have seen Latino public opinion on any issue,” Barreto told BuzzFeed News. “DACA registered 84 percent, this is even higher. The White House was smart to put this step to protect parents—almost nobody in the Latino community is going to say they don’t support a policy to keep parents and children together.”
Republican politicians, on the other hand, have no problem saying they don't support a policy to keep parents and children together. If the policy comes from Barack Obama and the parents and children in question are brown, anyway.
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