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This article is interesting because it is such a gross distortion of the actual results of the poll that it is written about. It turns out that Hispanics can be broken into two broad categories those who are here legally and can vote and those who are here illegally and who can't vote. Here is what the poll results said about the Hispanics who are here legally and who can vote:

“Hispanic registered voters are strongly supporting initiatives to reform immigration while penalizing illegal behavior. A majority of Hispanic voters (52.4%) support initiatives that would not allow people who entered this county illegally to become citizens unless they reapply from their country of origin,” Deposada said. “By a margin of 50% to 41%, Hispanic voters support increasing the number of border patrol agents in our southern border, and also support new laws to make sure that employers can only hire workers who are in the U.S. legally (50% - 41%). An overwhelming majority of 82% support the creation of a new Temporary Worker Program. Also a plurality (41.2% – 39.9%) support imposing a fine of at least $2,000 for illegal immigrants in order to gain legal employment as a temporary worker in the U.S.”

Results of 2005 National Latino Survey

If you just read the article you would think that they all wanted open borders whereas the actual pool results suggest that most would support a program a lot like the Kyl/Cornyn Plan.

It turns out that except at the Presidential level for George Bush, Republicans are getting only trivial support from Latinos anyway so they don't have much to lose by being tough on illegal immigration and a lot to lose if they let very many of the illegals ever become voters.

I followed your link and there was a very interesting stat there.

82% of registered hispanic voters support the creation of a new guest worker program.

The fact the House Republicans have passed a reform bill without a new guest worker program would imply that 82% of hispanic voters are opposed to the bill.