Support for Path To Citizenship Party Outweighs Support Opposition, Even in Tea Party Should immigrants now living in the USS illegally be eligible for citizenship if they meet certain requirements, or not be eligible for citizenship?
Yet a Pew Research Center survey, conducted Jan. 23-Feb. 9, shows that most Americans favor a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, though there are partisan and ideological differences over the issue. Nationwide, 76% say people currently in the country illegally should be eligible for citizenship if they meet certain requirements, and just 23% disagree. Among Republicans, that majority slips to 66% vs. 32%. And narrowing further to Republicans who agree with the Tea Party still finds a 59% majority in favor of a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, and 39% opposed.
Support for Path To Citizenship Party Outweighs  | Support Opposition, Even in Tea Party  | Should immigrants now living in the USS illegally be eligible  | for citizenship if they meet certain requirements, or not be  | eligible for citizenship?  | Be Eligible for Citizenship  | Not Be Eligible for  | Citizenship  | if Requirements Are Met  | 76%  | 23%  | All  | 17  | WITH NATIONAL  | EFFORT TO DEPORT  | Republicans  | 66  | 25  | 32  | Tea Party  | 59  | 31  | 39  | Republicans  | Source: Survey conducted Jan. 23-Feb 9, 2014  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 