Roberto Suro
Roberto Suro
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It's by far the biggest public statement on immigration policy on one side or the other that we've ever seen.
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Contrary to what people might expect, the inclination to migrate isn't contained among Mexicans who are poor or poorly educated or with limited economic prospects. They're distributed across the whole breadth of Mexican society.
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Contrary to what people might expect, the desire to immigrate is not restricted to the poor.
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There's a Hispanic middle class, no doubt, but it just doesn't spend as much as other groups. And Oscar De La Hoya is by no means alone, or even early.
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This is the most comprehensive public opinion poll ever done. There is not a consensus nationwide about immigration or a consensus about what to do about it.
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The U.S. economy was obviously a very important factor in these flows.
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A lot of that is based on the perception of the future potential versus their strength now.
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The unknown here is the extent to which someone retains an ethnic identity that influences their choices of entertainment. It's a large enough population that marketers are spreading their bets.
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Rather than undergoing a continuous increase in immigrant levels as is commonly perceived, the United States experienced a sharp spike in immigration flows over the past decade that had a distinct beginning, middle and end.
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There's kind of a cosmopolitan feel among these kids, which could end up being something very distinctive. It's a mishmash of stuff, and it's all just sort of thrown together, which is very much what this generation is like: a mixture of what they take from their families . . . and purely American kids.
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There's one very clear finding and that's that unemployment per se is not a very large factor in determining whether people migrate or not. This is not a flow of people without jobs. Unemployment is not pushing people out. . . .
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Right now, we're seeing to some extent the political response to the demography. And even though the legislative proposals are seemingly technical and narrow, they touch these nerves about how we think of ourselves as a people.
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The desire to migrate is not a phenomenon of the poor and poorly educated, ... The inclination to migrate is powerful in the middle class in Mexico, even those with college educations say they would go to the United States if they could.
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You've got a very large share of the population living not in stereotypical neighborhoods where all the signs are in Spanish. There are still a lot living in densely Hispanic neighborhoods, but there are more who are scattered all over the landscape.