--- title: Latinos, Young Voters Applaud Obama Action On Immigration, Polls Show description: Two national polls found that Latino and young voters overwhelmingly support Obama's executive action. canonical: https://time.com/3602711/latinos-youth-immigration-action-polls/ author: Haley Sweetland Edwards article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-24T18:42:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:47:34.067Z article:section: Politics og:title: Latinos, Young Voters Applaud Obama Action On Immigration, Polls Show og:description: Two national polls found that Latino and young voters overwhelmingly support Obama's executive action. og:url: https://time.com/3602711/latinos-youth-immigration-action-polls/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc155df2f2594f75f/69876a99f887dc1432e888fd/obama-immigration-latinos.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Immigrants Rally To Thank Obama og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Latinos, Young Voters Applaud Obama Action On Immigration, Polls Show twitter:description: Two national polls found that Latino and young voters overwhelmingly support Obama's executive action. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc155df2f2594f75f/69876a99f887dc1432e888fd/obama-immigration-latinos.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Latinos, Young Voters Applaud Obama Action On Immigration, Polls Show > Sponsored content. 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Nov. 21, 2014 - Washington, District of Columbia, U.S. - Hundreds of Latino activists and families gather outside of the White House the day after Obama's immigration executive order in Washington on Nov. 21, 2014. Oliver Contreras—Zuma Press  by [Haley Sweetland Edwards](https://time.com/author/haley-sweetland-edwards/)  ## Haley Sweetland Edwards Nov 24, 2014 6:42 PM UTC The vast majority of Latinos and voters under the age of 35 support President Barack Obama’s executive action last Thursday shielding between 4 and 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation, according to new national polls. The overwhelming support from these two growing demographics may have major implications for voter turnout and party affiliation in 2016. Almost 90% of Latino voters say they “support” or “strongly support” Obama’s executive action, according to a [national poll](www.latinodecisions.com/recent-polls/) by Latino Decisions and commissioned by two pro-immigration reform groups, Presente.org and Mi Familia Vota. Nearly three-fourths (72%) of voters under the age of 35 supported the president’s action, according to a national poll by Hart Research Associates [\[PDF\]](http://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1b1ad804b726a59000%5Fu7m6bxtti.pdf). While both Latinos and young voters showed particularly strong support, 67% of all voters—both men and women from states that supported both Obama and Mitt Romney in 2012—felt favorably toward the executive action, according to the Hart Research poll. More than two-thirds of all voters were in favor of allowing the undocumented parents of children or young adults to stay in the U.S., and of providing temporary work permits to eligible immigrants. Both polls found that voters believe Obama’s executive action is lawful. Respondents strongly disagreed with strategies, suggested by some Republicans, to fight the action: 72% of voters opposed the idea of Republicans shutting down the government until the president agrees to end the executive action, according to the Hart Research poll. (62% of Tea Party Republicans were in favor of that strategy.) Four out of five Latino voters opposed the idea of Republicans passing a bill to defund a federal program issuing work permits to undocumented workers, according to the Latino Decisions poll. Latino support for the executive action appears to be largely bipartisan, according to Latino Decisions. While 95% of Democratic Latino voters were in favor of the executive action, 76% of Republican Latinos were as well. The issue of immigration reform remains deeply personal for many Latino voters, 64% of whom have friends, family members, coworkers, or acquaintances who are undocumented. Sixty-four percent of Latino voters blamed Congressional Republicans for failing to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill; 24% blame Obama and Democrats, according to the Latino Decisions poll. Insofar as Latino voters were disappointed by Obama’s executive action, the reason seems to be that it didn’t go far enough. Two-thirds (66%) of Latinos said that Obama should use additional executive orders to shield from deportation those undocumented immigrations who were not covered by last Thursday’s action, which covers only those who have not committed a crime, lived here five or more years, and are either parents of a U.S. citizen or legal resident child here in the U.S. The action does not grant them citizenship, but it does allow them to get legal work permits. The Latino Decisions poll included 405 Latinos randomly selected from a nationwide database of registered voters. Its margin of error is +/- 4.9%. 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