People in Latin America continue to migrate, mostly north, but to different destinations. Recently, there has been an increase in Central and South Americans moving through and to México. The Mexican government has failed to protect their human rights and has even sided with right-wing governmental demands to militarize their borders and expel all kinds of migrants without due process. 

In this project, we inquire about the forces, predispositional, identity, and contextual, that shape the public's opinion about migrants, their impact, and the policies that are aimed at migrants. We use survey experiments to find the mechanisms that lead Latinos to want to reject co-ethnic immigration.