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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | December 2005 
New Jobs, Relatives Spur Mexican Migrants
 UPI
| | Vehicles cross into Mexico while above them, pedestrians walk back into the United States. (Reuters/Fred Greaves) |
The majority of undocumented migrants who responded to a Pew Hispanic Center questionnaire said they left jobs in the Mexico before entering the United States.
The Pew Center said the survey results, while not from a random sample, indicate failure to find work at home is not the primary reason people sneak into the United States.
The survey data indicate migrants have little trouble finding work although it is generally at minimum wage or below and in the agriculture, hospitality, construction and manufacturing fields.
About 5 percent of respondents told Pew they weren't working when they left Mexico and within six months all but 5 percent had found work in the United States. More than 80 percent of those asked said they left Mexico to join a relative in the United States.
The Pew Hispanic Center compiled a 12-page questionnaire that was handed out in Atlanta; Chicago; Dallas; Fresno, Calif.; Los Angeles and New York to people requesting identity documents from Mexican diplomatic missions. A total of 4,836 questionnaires were completed during the July 12, 2004, to Jan. 28, 2005, time frame. |
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