Apart from granting control of the senate to the GOP on Tuesday's Election Day, American voters also voiced their overwhelming opposition on two controversial issues: President Barack Obama's executive amnesty and foreign workers right to hold jobs in the United States, Breitbart reported.
With Obama's plans for an executive amnesty making headlines every other day, it seems that three-quarters, about 74 percent, of American voters would rather have the president work with the Congress on immigration reform than work on it separately, according to an exit poll conducted by Kellyanne Conway's The Polling Company.
While tri-partisan majorities of "self-identified Republicans (92 percent), Independents (80 percent), and Democrats (51 percent)" did not want Obama to enact an executive amnesty on his own, 20 percent of voters believe Obama should move forward by himself.
"The president may be the last person in town to realize how resistant Americans are to him playing the Lone Ranger on amnesty," the polling memo stated. "In fact, based on his press conference yesterday, he has either suspended disbelief or has no awareness of how the immigration issue and his threats to act alone contributed to his party suffering massive losses on Tuesday."
Despite President Obama claiming that he would wait until after the elections, Breitbart News discovered and reported in October that the Citizen and Immigration Service (USCIS) has issued a procurement request for as many as 34 million work permits and green cards, prompting speculations that the president is getting ready to sign an executive order that could offer legal status to millions of illegal immigrants, The Hill reported.
But this proposition is strongly opposed by 80 percent of voters, who want "new jobs created by the economy to go to American workers and legal immigrants already in the country." The breakup included 74 percent in the Northeast, 80 percent in the Midwest, 85 percent in the South, and 80 percent in the West.
Specifically, these numbers turn "on its head the elitist idea that illegal immigrants 'do the jobs that Americans don't want to do,'" the Polling Company noted.
"Voters overwhelmingly prefer an immigration system that protects American workers," the polling memo states. "Therefore members of Congress should feel confident that voters will support actions using the power of the purse to protect American workers from Obama's executive amnesty threat."
The Polling Company poll was conducted on Election Day, November 4, and has a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percentage points.
