Immigrants Express Shock at Return of PRI Julie Watson - Associated Press
go to original July 2, 2012

Mexico's new president may dissuade some immigrants from returning home, despite promising economic opportunities there and a faltering job market in the United States.

Preliminary results from Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute released Monday show that the vast majority of the 40,000 Mexican expatriates who voted in Sunday's election cast ballots against President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto.

Many immigrants say they were shocked that his Institutional Revolutionary Party — which largely convinced them to leave their homeland — has returned to power.

Mexican immigration expert Wayne Cornelius says President Felipe Calderon's impressive record in managing the Mexican economy was overshadowed by the staggering drug violence that has cost more than 47,500 lives since his 2006 election.

According to reports in La Opinión, among Mexicans living abroad, PAN's Vázquez Mota got 42 percent of votes, four percentage points higher than Democratic Revlutionary Party (PRD) candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who got 38 percent of their votes.

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