UT Poll: Most Texas Voters Support Banning Muslims, Building Border Wall

The survey found that 31% of voters “strongly supported” denying such people entry, with another 22% “somewhat” supporting the idea. Thirty-seven percent of voters opposed the effort while 10% expressed no preference.

Among Republicans, 76% said they would support banning non-U.S. citizen Muslims from entering the country. About 25% of voters who identified as Democrats agreed. 

A majority of the respondents of the survey, 51%, also favored the immediate deportation of undocumented immigrants, while 52% said they either “strongly” (34%) or “somewhat” (18%) supported building a wall between the United States and Mexico. Twenty-four percent of the Democrats supported immediate deportation compared with 73% of Republicans. Seventy-six percent of the Republicans asked also favored a wall separating the two countries.

(Read more: UT Poll: Trump Leads Clinton by 8 in Texas)

The poll also found that there is less-than-majority support for immigration reform with or without a path to eventual citizenship. Half of the respondents were asked about comprehensive immigration reform with a path toward citizenship for most undocumented immigrants: 24% of them “strongly” supported that idea, while 25% “somewhat” supported it. The other half of the respondents were asked about immigration reform allowing legal residence but not citizenship: 20% said they “strongly” supported a path to legal status without citizenship, while 27 “somewhat” supported that idea. The margin of error for those questions is about +/- 4.07 and +/- 3.94 percentage points, respectively.

The poll of 1,200 registered voters was performed June 10-20 and has an overall margin of error of +/- 2.83 percentage points. Other results from the same survey, released Monday, show GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump leads Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by 8 points in Texas. Trump has made banning Muslims and building a wall a centerpiece of his campaign.