Rasmussen: 67% say states should enforce border security if the feds won't

The court of public opinion sides with Arizona.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 67% of Likely U.S. Voters – two-out-of-three – think a state should have the right to enforce immigration laws if it believes the federal government is not.enforcing them. Just 22% disagree and say states should not have that right. (To see survey question wording, click here).

Arizona is seeking reimbursement in its suit against the federal government, and nearly half (49%) believe the federal government should reimburse states for expenses incurred as a result of illegal immigration. Thirty percent (30%) say the government should not have to reimburse states, but another 21% are not sure.

Fifty-seven percent (57%) of voters continue to favor passage of an immigration law like Arizona’s in their own state. Twenty-eight percent (28%) oppose such a law, and 15% are undecided about it.

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And yet this is one of the areas where Obama is pushing for chaos, doing nothing to secure the border and suing Arizona while telling Hispanic voters to “punish their enemies.” Those “enemies” are the majority who want border security, and which includes millions of Hispanic voters themselves.

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