New poll from the LA times on the question of illegal immigrants

Strange that they do not link to the poll nor do they show the questions
asked or the breakdown of who was polled. Essentially this poll is
useless unless you can show all these things

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Poll: California voters see immigrants as a benefit, oppose deportation

By Cathleen Decker

Los Angeles Times
Posted: 10/24/2010 08:04:50 PM PDT
Updated: 10/24/2010 11:02:58 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES -- Repeated clashes over illegal immigration have marked
California's political races for years, but a new Los Angeles
Times/University of Southern California poll found that voters hold
positive views about immigrants overall and favor accommodating illegal
immigrants who have held down jobs in the state.

Asked whether immigrants represented a benefit or a burden to the state,
48 percent of voters likely to cast ballots in November said they were a
benefit, and 36 percent said they strongly held that view.

Only 32 percent said immigrants overall were a burden to California
because of their impact on public services, and only 22 percent felt
that way strongly.

Separately, 59 percent of likely voters said that an illegal immigrant
who had lived and worked in the United States for at least two years
should be allowed to remain here if discovered. More than two in five
voters said they felt strongly that such an option should be available.
Only 30 percent of likely voters thought the illegal immigrant should be
deported.

Views varied widely by political persuasion and age.

Liberals were most supportive of immigrants legal and illegal, with 75
percent saying immigrants were a benefit and 81 percent saying that
working illegal immigrants should be able to keep their jobs. Voters
under 45 agreed, with 59 percent saying immigrants were beneficial and
68 percent calling for illegal immigrants to keep their jobs rather
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than be deported.

Among conservative likely voters, 52 percent felt immigrants were a
burden and 25 percent said they were a benefit. Conservatives were the
only group that leaned more toward deportation.

http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_16424649?source=email&nclick_check=1

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