Fifty-six percent of Americans want Congress to defund President Obama’s November executive action on immigration, according to a new poll conducted by ABC news.
The poll was conducted on Jan 13-15, coinciding with the time Republicans in the House passed a bill to defund the president’s November immigration order and overturn similar policies dating back to 2011. Forty-one percent of Americans said they support the president’s immigration policy.
In November, President Obama said he would take unilateral action to shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation and allow them to obtain work permits, faulting Congress for failing to pass legislation that would achieve similar goals.
Executive Overreach
The move was condemned by Republicans as an egregious overreach of executive authority, and the leadership vowed to defund the president’s immigration order right after it was announced.
The president’s immigration order has been challenged as unconstitutional in court. In December, a District Court judge in Pennsylvania wrote in a court advisory that the immigration order violated the “separations of powers” clause in the Constitution, but did not issue any court orders against the policy.
