In-State Tuition for Illegals Gets Support of Majority of Florida Voters

With the Florida Senate preparing to vote on Wednesday on a measure giving in-state tuition to illegal aliens who attended high school in Florida, a new poll finds a majority of registered voters in the Sunshine State support the idea.

A poll from Quinnipiac University released Wednesday morning finds 55 percent of those surveyed support the proposal while 41 percent oppose it.

The poll shows a major partisan divide on the issue with 75 percent of Democrats supporting it and 66 percent of Republicans opposing it. Only 21 percent of Democrats oppose it while 29 percent of Republicans support it. A majority of independents -- 57 percent -- back the in-state tuition bill while 40 percent of them oppose it.

"A number of states already allow high school graduates in the United States illegally to qualify for the in-state tuition at their public colleges and Floridians seem to think it's a good idea," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, on Wednesday.

The poll of 1,413 registered Florida voters was taken from April 23-28 and had a margin of error of +/- 2.6 percent.