USA Today Poll: 40% of Mexicans say they would move to U.S. if they could

Regis Philbin · Aug 22nd, 2005, 12:59 AM

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition...lede17.art.htm

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Mexicans feel strong pull to USA
Poll finds desire to immigrate in ‘whole breadth' of society
By Haya El Nasser
USA TODAY

More than 40% of Mexican adults say they would move to the USA if they could, and one in five say they would do so illegally if necessary, according to surveys released Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center.

Surveys of 1,200 Mexican adults in February and 1,200 in May, conducted in their homes, show that Mexicans' rising education levels have not weakened the desire to live and work in this country.

More than a third of Mexican college graduates say they would come to the USA if they could, and more than one in eight would do so even if they had to enter the country illegally, according to the surveys, the first of their kind.

**Richard Tafoya** · Aug 22nd, 2005, 01:42 AM

Hope they're hammering away at computer science courses. We need a lot of good coders in this country, and pointing the jobs at Mexico seems a lot more strategically sound that pointing them to India.

Regis Philbin · Jul 23rd, 2006, 02:40 AM

*bump*

Stopanimalabuse · Jul 23rd, 2006, 06:50 AM

Numbers appear to differ a bit but that's typical of polls. Do they give the reasons why they would move?

Jul 23rd, 2006, 02:40 AM	#3
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Jul 23rd, 2006, 06:50 AM	#4
Stopanimalabuse Registered User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Upstate New York Posts: 8,703	Numbers appear to differ a bit but that's typical of polls. Do they give the reasons why they would move? __________________ "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." -Mohandas Gandhi

Aug 22nd, 2005, 01:42 AM	#2
Richard Tafoya Administrator Join Date: Jun 1999 Location: Los Angeles, CA USA Posts: 11,187	Hope they're hammering away at computer science courses. We need a lot of good coders in this country, and pointing the jobs at Mexico seems a lot more strategically sound that pointing them to India.