New polling data shows that a majority of Americans did not support congressional Republicans who blocked the passage of the Department of Homeland Security funding bill in order to repeal President Obama's executive actions on immigration.

After weeks of debate and a looming partial government shutdown, extremists in the Republican Party finally conceded to funding Homeland Security without adding a policy rider that would have blocked Obama's executive order to prevent the deportation of 5 million undocumented workers currently living in the U.S.

According to research published by the Beyond the Beltway public polling initiative, most Americans did not agree with the conservative strategy to stop Obama's executive order by holding up the DHS bill. Instead, most voters would rather that Congress pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill.

"While Congress has kept comprehensive immigration reform bottled up, a majority of liberals, conservatives, and moderates alike support passing comprehensive immigration reform," states the policy group.

"Sixty-nine percent of voters indicated they would rather have Congress focus on passing immigration reform than forcing the president to reverse his executive order. A majority of Democrats (82%) and Independents (72%), and 50% of Republicans, support moving forward with immigration reform over reversing the president's action," it states.

The poll also revealed that 59 percent of those surveyed agreed with Democrats who thought that the DHS funding debate was a waste of time that could have been spent on working on a bipartisan reform bill that strengthens border security while providing undocumented immigrants with pathway to legalization.

Meanwhile, only 41 percent backed Republicans who opted to use different tactics to force the president to change or reverse the order.