Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Despite Some Support for Arizona Immigration Law, Most Americans Want Comprehensive Reform


Arizona’s draconian new law allowing police to interrogate suspected illegal immigrants at will and detain them if they can’t produce papers has received support in a number of public polls. But that support has been wrongly interpreted as indicating declining support for comprehensive immigration reform. Recent polling shows just how far from the truth that interpretation is.

Consider these results from a bipartisan poll by Lake Research Partners and Public Opinion Strategies, conducted for America's Voice. In that poll—conducted after passage of the Arizona law—voters were asked if they supported "comprehensive immigration reform," defined as ... READ MORE www.alternet.org/news