Californians Overwhelmingly Support Legalization

From the SF Chronicle:

"California voters increasingly oppose a federal plan for 700 more miles of border fence -- with just 37 percent favoring it this year, down from 47 percent last April, the Field Poll found. And just 53 percent of those polled voiced support the current policy of federal agents rounding up, detaining and deporting illegal immigrants.

Support among California voters for legalizing undocumented immigrants rose to 83 percent from 75 percent last April, while 67 percent of respondents backed a guest worker plan, up from 60 percent a year ago."

This is good news, though somewhat mixed. It says that "just" 53% support the ICE raids. I actually think this is pretty high when the details of the raids are actually considered and fully understood.

The best news, perhaps, is that Californians don't see immigration (legal or illegal) as an urgent problem or "crisis" despite all the sky falling rhetoric of the immigrant bashers: "Californians' sense that illegal immigration is an urgent problem has declined slightly compared to a similar survey last July, and residents of the Bay Area were the least concerned, the poll found."