A poll has indicated that more than half of U. S. voters favor Arizona's strict new immigration law and nearly as many want their states to pass a similar one.

Released on Tuesday by Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., the poll shows that 51 percent of voters said they support the immigration law, while 31 percent said they oppose it. The poll also indicated that nearly half, 48 percent, said they want their state to pass a similar law, while 35 percent said they would not want such a law.

Plans by the Arizona law's opponents to boycott the state are a bad idea, said more than three in four of those surveyed. They favor stricter enforcement of immigration laws over integrating immigrants into U. S. society, two-thirds said.

Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement, "The Arizona immigration law has emerged as a major divide in the country, but the numbers are on the side of those supporting it. The strong plurality who ... would like a similar law in their own state probably portends the law will be an issue in many, many campaigns this November across the country."

It was also reported that the poll is based on surveys of 1,914 registered voters nationwide May 19-24 and has a margin of error 2.2 percentage points. (With Inputs from Agencies)