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Poll: Most Back
Elian’s Return
Majority Backs INS' Decision to Send Boy to Father in Cuba

Analysis
By Dalia Sussman

ABCNEWS.com

N E W  Y O R K, Jan. 10— Discontent in Miami notwithstanding, a narrow majority of Americans endorses the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service’s ruling that 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez be returned to his father in
Cuba.
    

In a new ABCNEWS.com poll, 52 percent now say the boy should go home to his father, up slightly from 46 percent in a poll taken before the INS decision was announced. Thirty-six percent say he should remain with his relatives in the United States.

Should He Stay or Should He Go?
 Return to Cuba Remain in U.S.
1/9 52% 36%
12/12 46% 33%

Cuban-Americans in Miami have been protesting the INS decision to return Gonzalez, and Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., has sought to delay the move by issuing a subpoena to have the boy testify before a House committee in February. Gonzalez was found clinging to an inner tube on Thanksgiving Day, two days after a boat carrying illegal immigrants from Cuba to Florida capsized, killing 11, including his mother.
     The question in this poll, completed Sunday, updated respondents on the Jan. 5 INS decision. The slight rise in support for sending the boy back to his father was accompanied by a drop in the number of people undecided on the question, from 20 percent to 12. The poll was conducted before a Miami judge issued a protective order today, keeping Gonzalez in the United States in defiance of the INS ruling.
     There are a few notable differences among groups. Men — perhaps identifying with the father — are somewhat more apt than women to favor Gonzalez’ return to Cuba. And better-educated Americans are markedly more apt to say the boy should be returned.

Differences Among Groups
 Return to Cuba Remain in
U.S.
Men 56% 34%
Women 48% 38%
H.S. Grad/Less 47% 42%
Some College 52% 35%
College/Post Grad. 61% 26%

Methodology
This ABCNEWS.com survey was conducted by telephone Jan. 5-9, among a random national sample of 1,016 adults. The results have a three-point error margin. Field work was done by ICR-International Communications Research of Media, Pa.

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