TIME poll: Voters back guest worker plan 3-1

Poll Analysis: Large Majority Favors “Guest Workers”

Here’s the report from TIME’s pollsters:

Posted Friday, Mar. 31, 2006

With the immigration debate raging in Congress and immigration supporters spilling out into the streets, the latest Time Poll finds a lopsided majority of the American public, 72%, favor a "guest worker" program in a head-to-head match-up over a House bill that would criminalize illegal immigration.

Only 1 in 4 (25%) support the more drastic House version that would make illegals felons, allowing no illegals into the country, with no guest worker provisions.