Immigration Foes Have Numbers, but No Strategy
Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, has a conversation following a Bloomberg Television interview in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/BloombergOn Tuesday, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which opposes President Obama's various executive actions on undocumented workers, released a slew of new polls. They captured opinions from red or purple states that had elected Democratic senators—Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, North Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia, Montana, Maine. In every case, voters told Zogby Analytics pollsters that they would side with the legislators trying to undo the president's orders.
"Senator Mark Warner opposed defunding the president's executive amnesty earlier this month, despite his previous assertions that such acts are unconstitutional," declared FAIR in its release of a Virginia poll. "By a 42 percent to 34 percent margin, Virginia voters want Warner to back up his earlier opposition to the president's amnesty programs by supporting defunding provisions in the Senate's DHS Appropriations bill."