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«Contrary to what people might expect, the inclination to migrate isn't contained among Mexicans who are poor or poorly educated or with limited economic prospects. They're distributed across the whole breadth of Mexican society.»

«desire to migrate is strong.»

«If all these people that came here are going to stay, then there is a question of what will be the social cost. If they're only here for their working life, it's a bargain.»

«The unknown here is the extent to which someone retains an ethnic identity that influences their choices of entertainment. It's a large enough population that marketers are spreading their bets.»

«There's a Hispanic middle class, no doubt, but it just doesn't spend as much as other groups. And Oscar De La Hoya is by no means alone, or even early.»

«The flow of migration is not this inexorable, constant increase.»

«The extremely high (immigration) flows at the end of the past decade were not the norm, nor part of a long-term trend, but rather the peak of a momentary increase that lasted for only a few years.»

«There's one very clear finding and that's that unemployment per se is not a very large factor in determining whether people migrate or not. This is not a flow of people without jobs. Unemployment is not pushing people out. . . .»

«[De La Hoya's focus is less mainstream than Magic's, too. And while the per capita income of the more than 40 million Hispanics in the U.S. is expected to rise 8.2% annually through 2009 -- nearly twice as fast as the non-Hispanic rate -- the Latino population still shells out only about 84% per capita of what other ethnic groups spend on goods and services, according to a 2004 report on buying patterns by the University of Georgia.] There's a Hispanic middle class, no doubt, but it just doesn't spend as much as other groups, ... And Oscar De La Hoya is by no means alone, or even early.»

«The desire to migrate is not a phenomenon of the poor and poorly educated, ... The inclination to migrate is powerful in the middle class in Mexico, even those with college educations say they would go to the United States if they could.»