This inquiry focuses on the attitudes of Mexican Americans toward issues relating to current U.S. immigration policy. This study is an expansion of research begun last year (Miller, Polinard and Wrinkle: 1984). In the previous study the geographical focus was on Hidalgo County, situated on the Texas-Mexico broder. This study offers us the additional dimension of geography as a variable influencing attitudes.
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