As the Senate, nudged along by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, moves to include immigration for millions of illegal immigrants in an infrastructure bill, new polling shows it could be a career killer for several Democrats up for reelection next year.
Data provided to Secrets by the Federation for American Immigration Reform found most blame President Joe Biden for the border crisis and that a large majority believes that providing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants in the legislation would only make the crisis worse.
One early draft of the infrastructure bill would put $150 billion to immigration policies, including the path to citizenship.
Overall, 57% agreed that “such legislation would encourage more people to enter the country illegally and make an already difficult situation worse.”
The poll, conducted by Zogby Analytics, showed that voters in four critical states where Democrats face reelection, Arizona, Georgia, New Hampshire, and Nevada, would be far “less likely” to send their senators back to Washington if they backed the scheme.
It was a warning sign to Sens. Mark Kelly of Arizona, Raphael Warnock of Georgia, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada should they support a change to Senate rules to pass an infrastructure bill that includes amnesty with a simple majority.
In the four states, voters rejected that so-called budget reconciliation plan, 48% to 37%.
In Arizona, if Kelly supports the change, 49% of voters would be “less likely” to vote for him versus 26% who would be “more likely.” For Warnock, it’s 50% less likely to 29% more likely. For Shaheen, it’s 50% to 21%, and for Cortez Masto, it’s 47% to 28%.
Zogby also tested the impact on Manchin, who is not up for reelection, and West Virginia voters feel the same way, with 55% “less likely” to support him and 29% “more likely.”
Just today, Manchin appeared to signal that he would support sticking immigration reform into the infrastructure bill. He is considered the key vote in whether the legislation moves forward or not.
FAIR President Daniel Stein told Secrets, “The reckless policies of the Biden administration have created an unprecedented illegal immigration crisis. Voters in states with Democrats up for reelection are very clear: Any senator that yields to pressure from open borders radicals, and resorts to legislative trickery to gain amnesty for millions of illegal aliens, does so at his or her political peril.”
The poll is the latest to show overwhelming anger at the Biden administration’s bumbling of the border and his effort to tear down the restrictions that worked under former President Donald Trump. The 63% that Zogby found blaming Biden was echoed in a Rasmussen poll that found that over 60% believe the border is in a crisis.
The issue has also nicked Vice President Kamala Harris. She was assigned to deal with the crisis, but most voters believe she has failed.
Amnesty, however, is a different issue. Democrats have long hoped to provide a pathway for millions of illegal immigrants who crossed the border as younger migrants. A prior reform effort failed miserably.
But with nearly 190,000 people crossing the border just last month and expectations that over 1 million will in Biden’s first year, people are growing restless, with 72% telling Zogby that the nation needs to take action “to end it.”
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