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Obama's Approval Rating On Immigration Has Crashed Amid The Humanitarian Border Crisis

Brett LoGiurato
Jun. 20, 2014, 8:08 AM
Business Insider

President Barack Obama's approval rating on handling issues of immigration has fallen to its lowest level since 2010, amid diminished prospects for comprehensive reform legislation and a burgeoning humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Just 31% of Americans approve of the job Obama's doing on immigration, according to a new poll from Gallup released on Friday. Meanwhile, disapproval ratings on the issue have soared to 65%. Together, it represents an 18-point swing from 10 months ago, a short while after the Senate had passed immigration-reform legislation.

Obama's approval rating has fallen among all parties. At 90%, Republicans give him their highest disapproval rating ever on the issue. And approval among self-identified independent voters and among voters in his own Democratic Party have each dropped 8 points.

Here's a chart that shows the drop:



Obama has taken heat from his party for not taking unilateral action to stem deportations of undocumented immigrants. Meanwhile, he is facing renewed fire from Republicans, amid a growing crisis on the U.S. border. Thousands of undocumented immigrants — many of them unaccompanied children — have flowed over the border in recent months, and many have been placed in detention facilities with nightmarish conditions.

"The Obama Administration’s outright refusal to enforce the law is causing chaos for those of us who live and work in border states that must deal with the surge of immigrants who are illegally arriving each day," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wrote in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Thursday.

http://www.businessinsider.com/obama...-crisis-2014-6

by Tony Lee 20 Jun 2014, 9:29 AM PDT
breitbart



Nearly two in three Americans disapprove of the way President Barack Obama is dealing with immigration as he pushes for amnesty while illegal immigrant children are flooding across the border.

A Gallup poll found that 65% of Americans disapprove of Obama on immigration, which is up four points from a CNN poll earlier in the month that found 61% of Americans disapproved.

According to the Gallup poll, "Americans' approval of President Barack Obama's handling of immigration has dropped to 31%, one of the lowest readings since 2010," and the poll found Obama's 65% disapproval rating has climbed "10 points since August 2013," which nearly a month after the Senate passed its comprehensive amnesty bill.

Gallup cited Obama's threats to unilaterally ease deportations as one of the factors contributing to his low approval rating that "has dropped since last August across all political affiliations, even among" Democrats. The poll found that "Democrats' approval has fallen eight points to the current 60%" and "approval among independents has also fallen eight points, to 25%." Meanwhile, only 8% of Republicans approve of Obama's handling of the immigration issue.

Gallup also concluded, consistent with post-election polling, that "House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's recent primary loss was widely viewed as a defeat rooted in Cantor's perceived stance on immigration." It also highlighted how the media has "enlarged its spotlight on the increasing numbers of unaccompanied Central American children who have crossed the U.S. border," which has made Americans more aware of the border crisis. The media started to cover the issue more seriously after Breitbart Texas released photos of illegal immigrant children being warehoused.

Obama has been scrambling to deal with the border crisis, even telling Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Thursday that illegal immigrant children crossing the border are not eligible for amnesty. His words and actions have led illegal immigrants to believe otherwise.

The poll was conducted June 5-8, and its margin of error is +/- four percentage points.

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Originally Posted by Jean

"The Obama Administration’s outright refusal to enforce the law is causing chaos for those of us who live and work in border states that must deal with the surge of immigrants who are illegally arriving each day," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wrote in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Thursday.

Unfortunately this situation is made for 'Bama. He gets to thumb his nose at the American people big time, while touting a phony humanitarian crisis. The only crisis occuring is that the working age adults who are flooding in will guarantee that the poorest Americans will be stuck with another generation of confusion and anger. Black Americans thought that 'Bama would be their savior. Actually he cares much more about his precious Undocumented Democrats than he ever will care about the poorest Americans.
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