一项新的研究发现，大多数美国人认为，美国为国内大多数无证移民建立合法居留的途径非常重要。
这皮尤研究中心发现的启示该报告于周二发表，正值最高法院审议特朗普政府是否可以合法终止“儿童移民延期行动(DACA)”计划之际。
根据DACA计划，近80万由父母带到美国的无证移民被允许在美国生活和工作。然而，特朗普政府试图结束这一项目，该投标被法院暂时阻止，并将于本周提交最高法院。
根据皮尤研究中心的调查结果，三分之二的美国人(67%)表示，为“该国大多数非法移民合法居留”建立一种方式对美国来说“非常或有些重要”
虽然对无证移民留在美国的途径的支持在很大程度上是按照政党路线下降的，但近一半(48%)的共和党和倾向共和党的参与者表示他们支持这一想法。
同时，82%的民主党人和倾向民主党的独立人士表示，他们认为这是一个重要目标。
除了为大多数无证移民建立一条能够留在美国的路线，美国人还表示支持接纳逃离战争和暴力的难民。
在9月3日至15日期间接受调查的9895名受访者中，73%的人表示，他们认为美国接收难民很重要，共和党人对这一目标的支持度比前几年更高。
皮尤说，2016年，只有40%的共和党人认为接纳难民是一项重要举措。然而，今年大多数共和党人(58%)表示支持这一目标。
尽管大多数美国人支持上述两项举措，但他们也表示支持加强美墨边境的安全，68%的参与者支持这一目标。
大约十分之九的共和党人(91%)表示他们赞成加强边境安全，而大约一半的民主党人和倾向民主党的受访者(49%)表示他们认为这是一个重要的提议。
共和党人和民主党人之间的明显分歧在越来越多未经授权进入美国的移民被驱逐出境方面也很明显
大约十分之八的共和党人(83%)表示他们赞成增加驱逐，其中51%的人认为这一举措“非常重要”
与此同时，在民主党人当中，对这一提议的支持度要低得多，只有大约十分之三(31%)的人支持推进驱逐出境，只有10%的人称之为“非常重要”的目标。"
不管美国公众怎么想，DACA是否被允许前进的决定目前掌握在最高法院手中。
法官们将讨论联邦法院是否应该能够阻止特朗普政府结束该项目的决定——以及特朗普是否有法律权利首先结束该项目。
如果这个项目真的结束了，成千上万受益于这个项目的人，以及许多可能在未来申请DACA保护的人可能会面临被驱逐出美国
在接受采访时新闻周刊周一，在最高法院审理的一个案件中，DACA的接受者和原告卡罗琳娜冯峰(Carolina Fung Feng)表示，如果最高法院做出有利于特朗普政府的裁决，她可能会丢掉工作，被驱逐回她12岁时离开的国家。
“我会和我在纽约的家人分离，我也会失去独立的能力，”冯说。“现在，我一个人和弟弟住在一起，所以如果他们永久取消DACA计划，我就不能帮我弟弟买房子了。”
现年30岁的冯在美国工作，帮助成人学习者获得高中同等学历证书。她说，她不明白为什么美国政府希望看到这个国家失去一个为国家经济做出贡献并加强当地社区的人口。
“我们为经济做出了贡献。我们没有做错任何事，”她说。“我们只是想过上更好生活的人，我们想保护我们的家庭，尽我们所能让他们过上更好的生活。”
AS DACA HITS SUPREME COURT, STUDY FINDS MOST AMERICANS WANT UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS TO BE ABLE TO STAY IN U.S. LEGALLY
The majority of Americans believe it is important for the U.S. to establish a way for most undocumented immigrants in the country to remain here legally, a new study has found.
The revelation from the Pew Research Center's findings, which were published on Tuesday, comes as the Supreme Court deliberates over whether the Trump administration can legally end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Under the DACA program, nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. by their parents have been allowed to live and work in the country.
According to the Pew Research Center's findings, two-thirds of Americans (67 percent) said it was "very or somewhat important" for the U.S. to establish a way for "most immigrants in the country illegally to remain her legally."
While support for a pathway for undocumented immigrants to remain in the U.S. fell largely along party lines, nearly half (48 percent) of Republican and Republican-leaning participants said they were in favor of the idea.
Meanwhile, 82 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said they felt it was an important goal.
In addition to establishing a route for most undocumented immigrants to be able to remain in the U.S., Americans also expressed support for taking in refugees fleeing war and violence.
Seventy-three percent of the 9,895 respondents who were surveyed between September 3 and 15 said they felt it was important for the U.S. to take in refugees, with Republicans showing greater support for that goal than in previous years.
In 2016, Pew said, just 40 percent of Republicans identified admitting refugees as an important initiative. This year, however, a majority of Republicans (58 percent) said they supported that goal.
While the majority of Americans were in favor of both of the above initiatives, they also expressed support for strengthening security along the U.S.-Mexico border, with 68 percent of participants in favor of that goal.
Around 9 in 10 Republicans (91 percent) said they were in favor of increasing security at the border, while about half of Democrats and Democratic-leaning respondents (49 percent) said they believed it was an important bid.
The apparent divide between Republicans and Democrats is also significant when it comes to increasing deportations of immigrants unauthorized to be in the U.S.
Roughly eight-in-ten Republicans (83 percent) said they were in favor of increasing deportations, including 51 percent who identified that initiative as "very important."
Meanwhile, among Democrats, support for that bid was much lower, with around just three-in-10 (31 percent) in favor of boosting deportations and only 10 percent calling it a "very important" goal."
Despite what the American public thinks, the decision on whether DACA is allowed to move forward currently sits in the Supreme Court's hands.
Justices will be deliberating on whether federal courts should have been able to block the Trump administration's decision to end the program—and whether Trump had the legal right to end it in the first place.
If the program does come to an end, the thousands of people who benefit the program, as well as the many who might have applied for DACA protections in the future could face deportation from the U.S.
In an interview with Newsweek on Monday, Carolina Fung Feng, a DACA recipient and plaintiff in one of the cases before the Supreme Court, said that if the Supreme Court rules in the Trump administration's favor, she could lose her job and be deported back to a country that she left when she was 12-years-old.
"I'd be separated from my family here in New York and, also, I would lose the ability to be independent," Feng said. "Right now, I live on my own with my younger brother, so if they were to eliminate the DACA program permanently I wouldn't be able to help my brother pay for the house."
Feng, who is now 30 and works in the U.S. helping adult learners earn their high school equivalency diplomas, said she cannot understand why the U.S. government would want to see the country lose a population that has contributed to the country's economy and strengthened its local communities.
"We contribute to this economy. We haven't done anything wrong," she said. "We're just human beings who want to live a better life and we want to protect our families and do the best we can so they can have a better life."
