Posted on 04/05/2010 8:23:07 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
In a dramatic turnaround from 16 years ago, Californians now overwhelmingly favor giving illegal immigrants a "path to legalization'' rather than punishing them by denying them a public education and social services, according to a poll unveiled Monday.
The survey of 1,515 registered voters showed that 67 percent of Californians support a two-pronged approach to solving the illegal immigration problem: implementing stronger enforcement at the border while setting up a legalization path for undocumented immigrants who admit they broke the law, perform community service, learn English and pay fines and back taxes.
Seventy percent favor stricter border controls and a temporary worker program that does not grant illegal immigrants citizenship and requires them to return to their homeland. But only 45 percent favor denying the undocumented an education and taxpayer-funded health and social services.
Dan Schnur, a political science professor at the University of Southern California, said the poll — sponsored by the Los Angeles Times and USC's College of Letters, Arts and Sciences — showed there was a "sea change'' in Californians' attitudes toward illegal immigration since 1994. That's when 59 percent of the state's voters cast a ballot in favor of Proposition 187, the white-hot measure aimed at denying services to illegal immigrants. The proposition was later ruled unconstitutional by federal courts.
"The conventional wisdom has suggested that the level of support for denial of services had remained fairly constant,'' said Schnur, who once worked for Republican Gov. Pete Wilson, a champion of Proposition 187. But the new poll, Schnur said, suggests otherwise.
One big reason for the change: Younger voters are less likely to favor cutting off services to the undocumented, Schnur said. In addition, the number of Latino voters has substantially increased since 1994.
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Sure and these are mostly illegals who have what they want and don't want it spoiled by any more of those pesky illegals sneaking in and diluting their "take"
Health care was bad enough. Passage of ANY kind of AMNESTY legislation will FOREVER change this nation and will destroy any chance we had at taking back our country from the marxist/communist dictators occupying our White House. They are going to need to do an AMNESTY soon or find some other way of maintaining control. IMO, we would be foolish not to understand that despite what our system of elections has always been, they would have ANY intention of ever relinquishing power. Yet despite the risk, we will again find ourselves battling not just against Democrats, but against the PRO-illegal wing of the Republican party.
by....”implementing stronger enforcement at the border while setting up a legalization path for undocumented immigrants who admit they broke the law, perform community service, learn English and pay fines and back taxes. “
We already know where the Dems stand on this....MORE importantly is knowing the politicians/organizations who typically call themselves ‘conservative’ or ‘Republican’, yet support this SAME “path to citizenship” amnesty.
Perhaps they are including the illegal aliens themselves in the poll now?
Well, Jinxie Grassroots is organizing big against sanctuary etal in IL, mayhaps they will in Cali?
If the “path” includes paying fines and back taxes, which is what the story says was in the poll question, I’m all for it federally. I’ve never seen a “path” that included any kind of punishment, they all are just amnesty.
The poll was probably taken in towns filled with illegal aliens...but it’s not all bad.
“Seventy percent favor stricter border controls and a temporary worker program that does not grant illegal immigrants citizenship and requires them to return to their homeland”
We Are The World,,,,/sarc
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