Results from the George Mason University Survey of Virginia Residents released on June 8, 2007:

• Sixty-eight percent of black Virginians oppose the creation of government-sponsored hiring centers for day laborers, which may include illegal aliens.
• Almost eighty-one percent of black Virginians
  favor requiring local police to check the immigration status of people
  they encounter during routine activities, such as traffic violations.
• Almost fifty-percent of black Virginians
  approve of groups of people known as Minutemen who look for illegal
  aliens along the Mexican border and in communities in order to report
  them to authorities.
• Sixty-six percent of black Virginians agree that illegal immigration takes jobs away from American workers.
• Seventy percenty of black Virginians agree that illegal alien workers in the labor market tend to lower the wages and salaries of American workers.
• Sixty percent of black Virginians agree that illegal immigration hurts American customs and way of life.
• Almost seventy-three percent of black Virginians agree that illegal immigration increases the dangers of terrorism.