Immigration issues have hurt Obama’s standing with voters

Immigration issues, including questions about who should have U.S. citizenship, have hurt Obama’s standing with voters, according to the latest Quinnipiac University national poll. The poll, carried out during the first week in September 2010, found that respondents had a strong anti-immigrant tilt, favoring, by 68% to 24%, stricter enforcement of immigration laws rather than integrating illegal immigrants into society and, by 48% to 45%, an end to the constitutionally guaranteed practice of granting U.S. citizenship to children born of illegal immigrants. Democratic respondents favored granting citizenship by 62% to 31%, while Republican and independent respondents oppose it by 67% to 27% and 51% to 42%, respectively.