Thread: 50% of Latinos say U.S. situation worse now....

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Half of U.S. Latinos say their situation in the United States is worse now than a year ago, a nationwide survey indicated Thursday.

Pessimism is especially prevalent among immigrants, with 63 percent saying the Latino situation had worsened in the past year, up from 42 percent in 2007, the survey by the Pew Hispanic Center found.

Immigrants account for 54 percent of all Hispanic U.S. adults.

The assessments come at a time when the U.S. Hispanic community -- numbering about 46 million, or 15.4 percent of the total U.S. civilian population -- has been hit hard by rising unemployment and stepped-up immigration enforcement, Pew said.

Nearly one in 10 Hispanic adults report police or other authorities have stopped them and asked them about their immigration status in the past year, the survey found.

One in seven say they have had trouble finding or keeping a job -- and one in 10 report the same about finding or keeping housing -- because they are Latino, the survey found.

Eighty-one percent say immigration enforcement should be left mainly to U.S. authorities rather than local police, the survey found.

Forty percent say they worry a lot about deportation and 57 percent say they worry somewhat about it, up 4 percent from 2007's 53 percent.

The bilingual telephone survey of a nationally representative sample of 2,015 Hispanics age 18 and older was conducted June 9-July 13. Its margin of error is 2.8 percentage points.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International

This report is so misleading that I do not even know where to begin! Did they speak to legal or illegal hispanics here, or didn't it occur to them to make that distinction since they might have vastly different opinions on the matter.

Forty percent say they worry a lot about deportation and 57 percent say they worry somewhat about it, up 4 percent from 2007's 53 percent.

From the way I'm reading this, it seems that 40% of latinos in the USA are illegal aliens. Out of the 54% of "immigrants" who are latino - looks like only 14% are legal.

What they don't mention is the children of these illegal aliens, which would make the actual figures skyrocket.

Times are tough for everyone, do these people think they are the exception? If you were not invited to come in, GET OUT!

Like NoBueno said, this is misleading. Legal or Illegal? I assume illegal, since so many are worried about deportation, but how could a total of 97% of 46 million worry about deportation IF the # of illegals in this country is as low as previously reported? I'm confused.
Anyways, my husband is Latino (legal, parents legal, grandparents legal, great grandparents came here from Mexico the legal way and became citizens before they had children, so don't say it's "impossible" or "takes too long".) He has never been stopped by the police or Border Patrol, neither have his parents (I'm not going to go down the whole family tree) or his sister, and none of them have ever been questioned about their status. None of them have felt "inconvenienced" at having to prove citizenship to vote. None of them have felt discriminated against in finding housing, or in school, or while walking down the street. Maybe those interviewed have reason to feel so paranoid.

Eighty-one percent say immigration enforcement should be left mainly to U.S. authorities rather than local police, the survey found.

How am I supposed to interpret this statistic? I need some help here!

Half of U.S. Latinos say their situation in the United States is worse now than a year ago, a nationwide survey indicated Thursday.
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And come July 1st it is going to get a lot worse for 100% of the illegals in South Carolina when our laws start coming into effect.

Is the result of a survey of 2, 015 of the "about 46 million" US Latinos really enough to so boldly claim that "half of U.S. Latinos (about 23 million) say their situation in the United States is worse now than a year ago?"

The article is somewhat confusing. However, there are 2,015 people over the age of 18 that were interviewed. 97% of those folks worried a lot or worried somewhat about deportation. Why would anyone here legally worry at all about deportation????? Unless they worried about close relatives or friends not here legally???

How am I supposed to interpret this statistic? I need some help here!

LOL...exactly, it doesn't really matter WHO catches them because they whine if it's the Police and they whine if it's ICE and whine if it's Border Patrol. It's not the locals jobs, stop the raids, there's abuse at the border. There is nothing they will agree with, no matter how perfectly it is done. Should have left with no questions asked when they could.

Times are tough for everyone, do these people think they are the exception?

I get that impression as well........we're all doing fine out here except for the Latinos.......wrong. Just wait till they really start cracking down on things......all sorts of things.......I'm sure they'll think it's directed at them but it's been that way all along, they just haven't enforced anything....especially with anything pertaining to them.

One in seven say they have had trouble finding or keeping a job -- and one in 10 report the same about finding or keeping housing -- because they are Latino, the survey found.

Well, first gotta speakedy Ingles. And as far as housing, no realtor or rental agent is allowed to discriminate or "steer" customers to specific neighborhoods due to their ethnicity.
If they need to worry less about deportation than they are now, GO HOME, because the US taxpayer is not going to fund their stress medicine, at least as far as we know or have a say, neither of which matters to the powers-that-be.