A new GenForward poll shows that Hispanic and Asian-American voters from recently immigrated families are far more likely to lean politically liberal than young voters whose families have been in the U.S. for generations longer.

The poll leaves little wonder why Democratic politicians support massively expanding both the influx of legal immigrants and refugees but also a path to citizenship for illegal aliens already in the United States.

That number … could incidate Clinton is lagging the dominant support President Obama found among Hispanic and Asian-American voters in 2012.

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Conducted from Aug. 1-14 and included a sampling of 1,958 adults who were either immigrants or the children of immigrants, was released on Thursday. Roughly 87 percent of those polled between the ages of 18-30 support policies allowing immigrant children to remain in the U.S. legally if they were brought into the country illegally.

For those young voters whose families have been in the country longer, those who support allowing children to remain legally in the U.S. fell to roughly 72 percent.

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Though the poll indicates these newcomers are more prone to supporting liberal policies, that isn’t to say immigrants, with voting rights, are falling in line lockstep behind scandal-plagued Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Roughly 59 percent of immigrants and the children of immigrants who were polled said had a favorable view of Clinton. That number, though high, could incidate Clinton is lagging the dominant support President Obama found among Hispanic and Asian-American voters in 2012. Obama won 71 percent of both demographics over GOP nominee Mitt Romney.

In addition, a recent poll from the immigration advocacy group America’s Voice showed that although Clinton’s support among Latinos was solid, the enthusiasm for her among young Latino voters was severely lacking.