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TheAssociatedPress LOS ANGELES Califor- nia voters broadly sup- port a path to legaliza- tion for immigrants in the U.S. without proper documents, despite wide- spread worry about the ef- fects of illegal immigra- tion, a new poll shows. Three in four of those surveyed support an over- haul of federal immigra- tion laws, the USC Dorn- sife/Los Angeles Times poll shows. A majority of voters of all races, income lev- els and geography agreed that illegal immigration is a major problem, but there were significant differences over what to do about it, the Times re- ported Monday. Beverly Bloom, a 59-year-old registered Democrat from Corona who works in physical ed- ucation at a high school, said she doesn't want to see punishment for the students and families she works with, many of them in the country illegally. "I don't want to hold it against these kids, be- cause these kids are won- derful children," Bloom told the Times. "Many of them have been here since they were infants, or their parents are un- documented, and I would hate to see these people sent back." Those polled showed a stark divide over unac- companied minors who have been coming to the U.S. in big numbers from Central America this year. Nearly half said they should be allowed to stay in California to await le- gal proceedings, while a similar number says they should be deported. David Bradford, 42, is in a minority among Republicans polled in thinking the children should be kept in the U.S. Some 71 percent think the children should be returned to their home countries. Bradford said he fears the children would face deadly consequences back home. As a parent, he said, he can't imag- ine sending his children through Mexico with a smuggler to get to the U.S. "These parents must have been in a desper- ate, desperate situation," Bradford said. The overall divisions in the poll responses ap- pear to reflect a pragma- tism among voters who feel that something must be done but don't want to create incentives to come across the border. "Voters are compas- sionate to those here il- legally — they recognize this is a problem that needs to be addressed," said Dave Kanevsky of American Viewpoint, a Republican polling firm that helped conduct the bipartisan survey. "But what they don't want to do is have solutions that let the problems continue and fester." The poll canvassed 1,507 registered Califor- nia voters from Sept. 2 through 8 by telephone. The overall margin of error is 2.9 percentage points and higher for the subgroups within the poll. IMMIGRATION REFORM Po ll : Vo te rs su pp or t le ga l path for immigrants The Associated Press STOCKTON A 16-year-old boy was arrested on sus- picion of moving what had been an intended getaway car two days after a deadly Northern California bank robbery, police said Mon- day. The teen was taken into custody on Thursday and booked on suspicion of be- ing an accessory after he tried to cover up or move evidence, Stockton Police Chief Eric Jones said at a news conference. The teen, whose name was not released because of his age, was in the same gang as the three suspects who robbed a Bank of the West branch in Stockton on July 16, according to Jones. The robbers took three hos- tages and carjacked one of their vehicles instead of us- ing the car that was later moved. Two of the suspected rob- bers and a hostage, 41-year- old customer Misty Holt- Singh, were killed during an exchange of gunfire with police after the robbery. Po- lice have said a preliminary report shows Holt-Singh was killed by police. Jones said police are seek- ing to question Pablo Ruv- alcaba, 21, who may have dropped the suspects off at the bank. He described Ru- valcaba as a person of inter- est, not a suspect. In addition, officials with the federal Bureau of Alco- hol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said at Thurs- day's news conference that the agency was offering a $5,000 reward for infor- mation leading to the arrest and conviction of the per- son who supplied the rob- bers with an AK-47. Investigators have been unable to trace the weapon, which does not have a se- rial number and appears to have been made by an unli- censed manufacturer. Authorities say the sur- viving suspect, 19-year-old Jaime Ramos, used Holt- Sing as a human shield. He has been charged with three counts of murder and 22 counts of attempted murder. Holt-Singh, whose 12-year-old daughter was waiting in a car, was taken hostage along with two bank employees. Officers gave chase when the rob- bers, armed with three handguns and an AK-47, fled with the women in an SUV owned by one of the employees. The two employees sur- vived by either jumping or getting thrown from the SUV as it sped through town. STOCKTON Teen accused as accessory in California bank heist By Terry Collins The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO A wildfire that broke out in far North- ern California on Monday burned at least 75 struc- tures, forced the evacuation of about 1,500 residents and caused the closure of a ma- jor interstate freeway. Winds gusting up to 40 mph spread the fire near the town of Weed, about 50 miles south of the Cali- fornia-Oregon border, to at least 200 acres, said Daniel Berlant, a spokesman with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Pro- tection. Berlant said the fire dam- aged or destroyed 75 struc- tures, and it forced the evac- uation of residents in Weed, Carrick and Lake Shastina. The fire also prompted the closure of Interstate 5. Meanwhile, firefighters were trying to gain better access to two raging wild- fires that have forced hun- dreds to evacuate their homes, including one near a lakeside resort that de- stroyed nearly two-dozen structures. In Northern California, firefighters spent the day working to build and rein- force containment lines in steep terrain near a foothill community south of an en- trance to Yosemite National Park in central California. Authorities there evacuated about 900 residents from 400 homes, Madera County sheriff's spokeswoman Er- ica Stuart said. The blaze has burned a less than a square mile and destroyed 21 struc- tures — 20 of them homes, CalFire spokesman Den- nis Mathisen said. The fire started off a road outside of Oakhurst, near Yosemite, and spread to Bass Lake, a popular year-round des- tination. More than 300 firefight- ers were on the scene of the blaze, which is 20 percent contained and has not af- fected the park, Mathisen said. The cause of the fire has not yet been deter- mined. The destructive fire led Gov. Jerry Brown to secure a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cover 75 percent of the cost of fighting it, state officials said. The blaze is the latest to hit the area, which is still reeling from the Junc- tion Fire near downtown Oakhurst that destroyed eight structures earlier this summer. "I really feel for this com- munity, which has already beenthroughalot,"Mathisen said. "This is yet another ex- ample of how the damaging effect of this drought has im- pacted California." Farther north, a wildfire about 60 miles east of Sac- ramento forced the evacu- ation of 133 homes. El Do- rado County sheriff's offi- cials said residents of an additional 406 homes were being told to prepare to flee. More than 800 firefight- ers are battling the blaze, which started in a remote area Saturday but exploded Sunday when it reached a canyon full of thick, dry brush. The fire grew by 900 acres overnight to more than 6 square miles, Mathisen said. It was 10 percent con- tained, he said. In Southern California, a fire in Orange County's Sil- verado Canyon was started by the sun's rays reflecting off sheet metal that edged a homeowner's backyard gar- den, officials said. The 2-foot-tall metal fencing surrounded a veg- etable garden and was in- tended to keep small ro- dents out, Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Steve Concialdi said. The sheet metal ignited a wooden bor- der and nearby grass and then spread. The homeowner will not be charged or fined for the accidental blaze, Concialdi said. Evacuation orders for 200 homes were lifted late Sunday as the fire is 80 percent contained. The fire started Friday and grew to 1½ square miles, the U.S. Forest Service said. 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