From Roll Call's Morton Kondracke comes "Surprise! Voters favor immigration reform":

Despite massive agitation for a restrictionist immigration policy, a new poll shows surprising support for proposals to allow foreigners and illegal immigrants to obtain work permits and earn their way to citizenship...

The poll, conducted for the pro-reform National Immigration Forum and the American Immigration Lawyers Association, shows that Americans would support reforms even more liberal than Bush's — the kind expected to be jointly proposed soon by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass...

Kennedy and McCain are proposing that, after six years of legal work, law-abiding immigrants who pay a "fine" and undergo a background check would be eligible for permanent resident status (a "green card") and eventual citizenship...

The Goeas-Lake poll showed that, even after hearing strong arguments against the Kennedy-McCain reforms, 77 percent of likely voters would favor their proposal...

...Significant majorities said they'd be less likely to support a McCain-Kennedy-style bill if told it was an "amnesty," if it lowered U.S. wages or if it encouraged more illegal immigration. Still, after hearing arguments on both sides, 77 percent favored the reforms...

In other words, as long as you don't tell them the truth, a surprisingly vast number of Americans will support "reform." In the rest of the editorial Kondracke rails against "restrictionist" radio and TV hosts and repeats the usual canards about jobs Americans won't do

FAIR discussed the poll in the article "False Choice Yield False Polling Data About Immigration", and you can read the poll yourself in this PDF file. Note that the word "illegal" is only used in one of the poll's questions, with "undocumented" being used in the other questions.

And, Sen. Kennedy is partly responsible for the millions of illegal aliens in the U.S. See "1970s Law Laid Groundwork for out-of-Control Immigrations" or "GOP Immigration Stance Far From Reagan Reforms":

While Reagan’s 1986 immigration reforms can at least be called rational, they were a failure. Today, there are between 8 million and 11 million illegal aliens in the United States. The majority of them crossed our southern border and has found employment — illegal employment, but employment nonetheless. This is attributed to Sen. Ted Kennedy’s eventual gutting of the enforcement mechanism for Reagan's employer sanctions, and successive administrations refusing to give our Border Patrol the resources it needs to achieve its mission...

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