Most voters in Florida support legalizing the status of people who were brought to the U.S. as children by illegal immigrants, but are split on whether they support a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, according to a poll conducted by the Florida Atlantic University Business and Economics Polling Initiative.
In the poll:
- 58 percent of Florida voters support people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program gaining permanent legal status.
- 26 percent oppose that status.
Almost half of Florida voters support temporary protected status for Haitians, Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, and Hondurans whose countries experienced disasters. The poll’s results:
- 47 percent support protected status for those groups
- 32 percent oppose protected status for those groups
As for support for the border wall:
- 45 percent are against building the border wall
- 43 percent support the wall
Florida voters also are split over whether supporting a border wall in exchange for the DACA recipients getting permanent legal status.
- 37 percent support the border wall in exchange for DACA status
- 39 percent oppose that exchange
The poll was conducted among 750 registered voters in Florida from Feb. 1-4, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points, the poll report said.