A majority of Texas鈥� registered voters believe Muslims who are not U.S. citizens should be banned from entering the country, according to results of a University of Texas/Texas Politics Project released Tuesday.
The survey found that 31 percent of voters 鈥渟trongly supported鈥� denying such people entry, with another 22 percent 鈥渟omewhat鈥� supporting the idea. Thirty-seven percent of voters opposed the effort while 10 percent expressed no preference.
Among Republicans, 76 percent said they would support banning non-U.S. citizen Muslims from entering the country. About 25 percent of voters who identified as Democrats agreed.
A majority of the respondents of the survey, 51 percent, also favored the immediate deportation of undocumented immigrants, while 52 percent said they either 鈥渟trongly鈥� (34 percent) or 鈥渟omewhat鈥� (18 percent) supported building a wall between the United States and Mexico. Twenty-four percent of the Democrats supported immediate deportation compared with 73 percent of Republicans. Seventy-six percent of the Republicans asked also favored a wall separating the two countries.
The poll also found that there is less-than-majority support for immigration reform with or without a path to eventual citizenship. Half of the respondents were asked about comprehensive immigration reform with a path toward citizenship for most undocumented immigrants: 24 percent of them "strongly" supported that idea, while 25 percent "somewhat" supported it. The other half of the respondents were asked about immigration reform allowing legal residence but not citizenship: 20 percent said they 鈥渟trongly鈥� supported a path to legal status without citizenship, while 27 鈥渟omewhat鈥� supported that idea. The margin of error for those questions is about +/- 4.07 and +/- 3.94 percentage points, respectively.
The poll of 1,200 registered voters was performed June 10-20 and has an overall margin of error of +/- 2.83 percentage points. Other results from the same survey, Monday, show GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump leads Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by 8 points in Texas. Trump has made banning Muslims and building a wall a centerpiece of his campaign.
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