Majority of Colorado voters think Federal policies encourage illegal immigration

Most voters in Colorado (60%) think the current policies and practices of the federal government encourage people to enter the United States illegally.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state finds that 26% disagree and do not think these practices encourage illegal immigration, while 14% more are not sure.

When it comes to dealing with the issue of illegal immigration, all voters in the Centennial State lean toward state enforcement rather than federal. Fifty-three percent (53%) say allowing individual states to act on their own to enforce immigration laws is a better approach to dealing with immigration.

The survey of 750 Likely Voters in Colorado was conducted on October 3, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/-4 percentage points.