NATION : Poll Backs Strict Immigration Curbs
WASHINGTON — A poll of 800 California voters shows widespread support for stricter measures to curb illegal immigration across the U.S.-Mexican border, a group that commissioned the survey said today.
Sixty-nine percent of Californians surveyed said they favored strict limits on the number of legal immigrants.
The poll found that 60% supported a government plan to build a four-mile drainage ditch along the border in San Diego County to thwart Mexican motorists who speed across the desert to enter the country illegally.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform commissioned the poll, which was conducted April 6-9 by Tarrance & Associates of Houston.
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