Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-2020
Abstract
Recently, there has been a surge of national attention toward the U.S.-Mexican border in South Texas, known as the Rio Grande Valley (RGV). Despite the attention and potential impact, which the wall would directly have on the RGV community, there has been no systemic attention paid to the opinions of the RGV residents regarding the proposed wall and other related immigration policies. This article, therefore, aims to fill this gap by comparing immigration policy attitudes in the borderland communities to both the national Hispanic and the general national populations. By utilizing original data from an RGV public opinion survey we conducted in 2018, our analysis shows that RGV residents hold more lenient immigration attitudes than do both the national Hispanic and the general populations. We utilize logistic regression analysis to further our understanding of the correlates of these attitudes across different samples. Our findings provide important policy and political implications.
Recommended Citation
Kim, Dongkyu, et al. “A Comparative Analysis of the Attitudes toward the U.S.-Mexico Border Policy: Evaluating Perspectives on Border Security and Building a Wall in the Rio Grande Valley, National Hispanic and General U.S. Populations.” Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, vol. 42, no. 4, Nov. 2020, pp. 476–496, https://doi.org/10.1177/0739986320953803
Publication Title
Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences
DOI
10.1177/0739986320953803
Comments
© 2020 The Author(s). © SAGE Publications. Original published version available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0739986320953803