Hispanics Feeling Heat Of Immigration Debate

Survey finds majority feel vulnerable.

By N.C. Aizenman

Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 14, 2007

"What we have here is a portrait of a population that is feeling vulnerable in the current political and policy climate," said Paul Taylor, acting director of the Pew Hispanic Center. "And what's interesting is that it's not just true of the foreign born but of the native born, including many people who have been here for generations."

Though the federal government has substantially increased enforcement actions such as workplace raids over the past five years, the numbers arrested through such actions remain infinitesimal compared to the almost 8 million undocumented immigrants in the workforce.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121301733.html

[Posted by Yoori Chung]