August 15, 2014 | By Javier Manjarres | Facebook | Twitter

Americans Want Immigration Reform Now!

The media push to show compassion for the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S. southern border seems to have worked, as a new FOX News poll shows that Americans are growing desperate over what the U.S. Congress isn’t doing about immigration reform, and want those elected officials to do something about the problem.

According to the poll, 65 percent of registered voters back “prefer legislation that only focuses on creating a pathway for certain illegal immigrants if that’s the only action Congress takes on immigration this year.”

The sentiment of doing something about the immigration issue along the border seems to be bipartisan, as 76 percent of Democrats ,56 percent of Republicans, and while 60 percent of Independents, all agree that Congress needs to act.

Voters are split over how to view the border crisis: 38 percent consider it mainly a national security issue, and the same number sees it mostly as an immigration issue. About one in five considers it both an immigration and national security issue (19 percent).

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Democrats lean more toward seeing it as an immigration issue, while Republicans are more likely to take the opposite view.

When asked to rate Obama’s job performance on immigration generally (beyond the border crisis), 33 percent of voters approve and 57 percent disapprove. That’s mostly unchanged from last month (34-58 percent). Being “under water” by 24 percentage points makes immigration one of his worst issues.

Hey, how about this novel idea?

Instead of passing new immigration reform legislation, why not enforce the existing immigration laws?

Meanwhile, the first National Guard soldiers that Texas Governor Rick Perry has called up to protect the Texas-Mexico border have arrived, and have taken up their posts.

Nice. Hopefully Arizona, New Mexico, and California, will follow Texas’ lead on immigration reform.