Poll finds Americans want unregistered foreigners to remain living in the US
February 15 2010 by Liam Clifford
A recent poll of voters in Texas has found that more of them want unregistered immigrants to remain living in the US than want them to be deported.
Options being considered in President Obama’s US immigration
reform bill include providing a path to citizenship or a US visa. Through
these paths, immigrants who have been living in the US for a number of years may
be allowed to do so legally.
Some 29 per cent of Texans questioned said
they favour a path to citizenship, while 23 per cent said they could be offered
US work visas.
However, pollers found that younger respondents were even
more likely to be in favour of providing a path to citizenship, with 42 per cent
under 30 voting for this option.
Racially, the difference was also
notable, with 39.6 per cent of African Americans voting in favour of a pathway
to citizenship, compared with 32.1 per cent of Latinos and 26.7 per cent of
whites.
Among white voters, a total of 43.5 per cent favour deportation
of unregistered immigrants living in the US, which is fewer than the total that
favour either a pathway to citizenship or a US visa.
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