{"id":1513,"date":"2013-06-28T20:52:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T20:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2013-06-28T20:52:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T20:52:18","slug":"poll-texans-want-immigration-reform-path-to-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=1513","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Texans Want Immigration Reform, Path to Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by John Michaelson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most Texans believe the country&#8217;s immigration reform system needs to be fixed, and a new poll also has found majority support for the U.S. Senate bill crafted by the bipartisan &#8220;Gang of Eight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marisa Bono with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) said the plan is a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The poll results reflect what we at MALDEF have known all along: Most Texans and most Americans favor immigration reform that focuses not only on enforcement, but also includes pathways for legalization and work authorization for those already here,&#8221; Bono said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1514\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1514\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1514\" alt=\"As immigration reform is debated in Washington, D.C., polling finds a majority in Texas wants something done, including a path to citizenship. Photo: Sasha Y. Kimel\/TNS\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/gr-33011-1-1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/gr-33011-1-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/gr-33011-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/gr-33011-1-1-405x270.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/gr-33011-1-1-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">As immigration reform is debated in Washington, D.C., polling finds a majority in Texas wants something done, including a path to citizenship. Photo: Sasha Y. Kimel\/TNS<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the poll, 67 percent of Texas respondents said they supported the &#8220;Gang of Eight&#8221; proposal being debated in the Senate, and an even greater percentage supported a path to citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Letting undocumented workers seek legal status through a rigorous path will have a genuine impact on the Texas economy, Bono added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For those immigrants who do not have criminal records, who do not pose threats to our communities or to our society &#8211; and who, in fact, contribute economically to our community in positive ways &#8211; it makes sense to embrace them, not to turn them away,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, the Pew Hispanic Center estimated that more than 1.5 million immigrants living in Texas are not in the U.S. legally and could benefit from the reform legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Michaelson Most Texans believe the country&#8217;s immigration reform system needs to be fixed, and a new poll also has found majority support for the U.S. Senate bill crafted by the bipartisan &#8220;Gang of Eight.&#8221; Marisa Bono with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) said the plan is a step in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}