New Poll: 70% of voters want immigration reform this year and support granting legal status to the undocumented already here

Most voters, Democrats, Republicans and independents, want Congress to act on immigration reform this year, a national poll released Tuesday found.

More than 70 percent also favor a bill the Senate passed in May that would beef up immigration enforcement but also would grant legal status to most of the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants and would admit temporary guest workers, according to the July 9-13 survey conducted jointly by the Tarrance Group, a Republican polling firm, and Democratic pollster Lake Research Partners.