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

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

Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.