Do you think illegal immigrants who are living and working in the United States now should be offered a chance to keep their jobs and eventually apply for legal status, or do you think they should be deported back to their native country?
Responses by Race
  WhiteBlackAll
Offered chance to keep jobs and apply for legal status 57% 83% 61%
Deported to native country 40% 13% 36%
DK/No opinion 3% 4% 3%

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    Source: A Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted by telephone January 12 - 16, 2005 among 1,007 randomly selected adults nationwide. Margin of sampling error for overall results is plus or minus three percentage points. Fieldwork by TNS of Horsham, PA.
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