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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | April 2006 
Poll: 43 percent of Mexicans Believe Racism in U.S. is Behind Opposition to a Migration Accord
 Associated Press
| | Lorenzo Sanchez Hernandez and his wife, Catalina Hernandez, who have a son and two daughters working illegally in the U.S. and haven't seen them in the last 5 years, although they send their parents money. A proposal in U.S. Congress to legalize millions of undocumented migrants could have a paradoxical effect, experts say, slashing the amount of money they send home and blocking the economic development that is the best long-term hope for combatting migration. (AP/Joel Merino) |
Mexico City – U.S. citizens want to stop illegal migrants from entering their country because they are racist, according to 43 percent of Mexicans interviewed by a poll published Thursday.
Another 70 percent said they believe that Mexicans immigrate to the United States because of a lack of jobs in Mexico, while 79 percent said they would be in favor of legalizing millions of undocumented migrants in the U.S.
The poll was sponsored by the Mexican El Universal newspaper and The Dallas Morning News. It was conducted through individual interviews with 1,491 adults from April 5-8, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.
The poll also showed that 76 percent of the respondents said it should not be a crime to remain in the U.S. without documents, while 89 percent said they did not believe a wall would help stop migration.
The survey comes as the U.S. Congress debates several immigration bills that propose everything from building a wall along the border and making illegal immigration a felony to approving temporary-worker programs and legalizing millions of the approximately 11 million undocumented migrants in the U.S. About 6 million of those are Mexicans.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants have staged marches against the U.S. in favor of legalization and against harsher punishment. |
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