Speech #980217495

At that time. it found that approximately 69 to 72 percent of the people in all categories together believed that we ought to deport those people who are here illegally. including approximately 60 percent of the Hispanic respondents. But on the following question. asked immediately thereafter. the response is revealing. The second question was: "Should we legalize those people who have been here 5 years of more?" And in the same group of people who had said overwhelmingly that all who have been here illegally ought to be deported. approximately 60 to 73 percent of the people in my home State said that yes. we ought to have legalization for those people who have been here 5 years or more. That was consistent across the board as that polling data broke it into Anglos. blacks. and Hispanics. They all seemed to agree that that is where we ought to go.