Latinos agree things are bad on the border but differ from non-Hispanics on solutions
A majority of Latinos agree there is trouble on the U.S.-Mexico border, but Latinos overall are less likely than other Americans to see more deportations and more border wall as effective responses, a Pew Research Center survey has found.
A majority of Latinos agree there is trouble on the U.S.-Mexico border, but Latinos overall are less likely than other Americans to see more deportations and more border wall as effective responses, a Pew Research Center survey has found.
Pew's analysis released Monday found that about three-quarters of Latinos surveyed view the increasing number of migrants seeking to cross the U.S.-Mexico border as a major problem or crisis. Roughly the same share believe the federal government is doing a bad job of handling it.
About two-thirds of Latinos said speeding up asylum decisions by increasing judges and staff would ease the problem, while 58% saw creating more ways to legally migrate as a tool for resolution.
But just a third of Hispanics backed increasing deportations of people in the country illegally and only around a quarter saw substantially expanding a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border as a way to handle it.
In comparison, a majority of non-Hispanic Americans (55%) backed more deportations to deal with the crisis, although less than half, 45%, agreed expanding the wall on the border would help.
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