Poll: 89 percent of Latino voters support Obama's immigration action

Nearly nine in ten Latino voters approve of President Obama's decision to unilaterally shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation, according to a poll released Monday by Latino Decisions.

"It is the most unified we have ever measured our community in any of the polling we've done," Latino Decisions co-founder Matt Barreto told MSNBC.

And in a warning sign for a Republican Party interested in courting more non-white voters, 80 percent of Latinos in the survey said Republicans should not try to block funding for Obama's immigration action.

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