Illegal immigration backlash

An email to me today contained the following message, which may actually be about 5 1/2 months old.

"Broad Support for Arizona's SB1070"

"A new Pew Research poll reveals that the majority of Americans support most of the provisions offered in Arizona's new immigration enforcement law. Seventy-three percent of Americans believe that individuals should carry proof of legal status, 67% support police being able to detain an individual that can't prove legal status, 62% support police questioning an individual they suspect to be in the country illegally, and 59% support the Arizona law.
- Pew Research Center

This prompted me to visit the Pew Research Center site, where I found an article with today's date and titled, "Illegal Immigration Backlash Worries, Divides Latinos".

From that article comes the following:

"About four-in-five of the nation's estimated 11.1 million unauthorized immigrants are of Hispanic origin. A new national survey by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center, finds that Latinos are divided over what to do with these immigrants.

"A small majority (53%) says they should pay a fine but not be deported. A small minority (13%) says they should be deported, and a larger minority (28%) says they should not be punished."

Of course, "four-in-five" is 80%. And 80% of 11,100,000 is 8,880,000. And that's a lot.

The number of Hispanics surveyed was not mentioned. What other result would you expect than "not be deported" or "not be punished", which is what 87% of those surveyed thought!

You can read the article at http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1781/survey-hispanics-unathorized-immigration-policy-discrimination-deportation-politics

Author's note: thanks to the eagle eye of "blue", who spotted my math error, which has now been corrected. (7:29PM)