Overwhelming Majority of Mexicans and Americans Living Along the Border Oppose Building Wall Univision Noticias
go to original July 18, 2016

Border residents: Don't build a wall between cities (Cronkite News)

Conducted in 14 cities on both sides of the 1,951-mile border, the survey found that 86% of people living on the Mexican side and 72% of those on the U.S. side are opposed to a wall. Of the minority in favor of a wall, only 2% on the U.S. side believe Mexico should pay for it.

“The wall is seen as a symbol of division, and what border residents want is connectivity,” Christopher Wilson, deputy director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute, told Univision News. “People living on the border feel very connected to the people on the other side.”

“That should not come as a surprise, because people living in the border area work on the other side of the border, do business across the border, go to school across the border, visit their families living on the other side of the border. They have a binational life, with many connections,” Wilson said. And many of them have been affected by the 653 miles of wall that have already been built.



Most survey respondents – 69% on the Mexican side and 59% on the U.S. side – believe the tone of the current U.S. presidential campaign is hurting the relationship between the two countries.

While most border residents oppose the wall, it doesn’t mean they are against improving security. In fact, one of respondents’ biggest concerns, especially on the Mexican side, is crime and insecurity, which ranks above employment and income.

Read the rest at Fusion

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