An op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today includes this passage: “A recent Fusion poll of likely millennial voters aged 18 to 34 found that a plurality of 49% support the Democratic Party’s immigration-reform position while only 30% supported the GOP’s position. But when the poll asks whom the respondent blames for the failure of immigration reform, 12% blamed the Democrats, 15% blamed President Obama, and 30% blamed both political parties. Thirty-three percent blamed the Republicans in Congress. Looking at the Fusion poll, the best political hope for a GOP nativist strategy is that few voters notice it—hardly a ringing endorsement.”

I wouldn’t make too much of these findings. That 49–30 split is trivially different from the Fusion poll’s ballot-preference question, where 47 percent of millennials say they’re voting for Democrats and 32 percent for Republicans. My guess is that partisan leanings are driving their answer to the question of which party they prefer on immigration. I’m not denying that there are political risks in being too hostile to legalizing illegal immigrants, etc., just cautioning against reading too much into this finding.