This may be a duplicate, but I did search.

GOP warned on immigration
By: Scott Wong
July 1, 2010 07:02 AM EDT

President Barack Obama’s allies have been blasting the GOP’s blockade of immigration-reform legislation, making the case that Republicans will alienate a core constituency – conservative Christians – unless they get on board.

Republicans have brushed off that warning, calling it a distraction from the president’s failure to fix the nation’s broken immigration system. In fact, recent polls show there’s little support among white evangelicals for a Democrat-backed plan that includes a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

“It’s really just an attempt to deflect attention from their lack of leadership on this issue,â€