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    X. The Matrícula Consular

    Present proof of Mexican nationality with a document such as a birth certificate or similar document issued by the Mexican government. Present proof of identity with a Mexican or U.S. document such as an electoral ID or a driver’s license. Present proof of residence with a utility bill, a receipt for rent payments or another […]

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    Survey of Mexican Migrants, Part One

    Most Mexican migrants want to remain in this country indefinitely but would participate in a temporary worker program that granted them legal status for a time and eventually required them to return to Mexico.

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    III. The Role of Social Security for Older Hispanics

    This section considers the extent to which Hispanics age 65 or older receive Social Security benefits and at what levels they receive them. Relatively fewer Hispanics than whites or blacks receive income from Social Security, and their levels of benefits are also lower on average. However, Social Security is a more important source of income […]

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    VII. Family Networks

    Large-scale Mexican migration to the United States has been underway for several decades and, as noted above, gained fresh momentum in the second half of the 1990s. One measure of the maturity of this migrant stream is the extent to which individual immigrants are part of an extended network of family members living in the […]

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    IV. Migration Experience

    As noted above, the sample for this survey drew heavily from among young and recently arrived migrants. As such, the survey sample is not representative of the full range of migratory experiences by Mexicans in the United States. The sample encompasses a reduced share of older migrants and migrants of longer tenure who may have […]

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    Survey of Mexican Migrants

    The Pew Hispanic Center conducted an unprecedented survey of Mexican migrants in the United States, including thousands who say they have no U.S.-issued identity documents.

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    IV. Looking to the Future: More Latino Beneficiaries and More Latino Contributors

    In the future, the growth of the Hispanic population will affect both the payout and revenue sides of the Social Security system. Eventually, when the current stock of young Latinos reaches retirement age, a growing proportion of beneficiaries will be Latino. At the same time, however, the number of Hispanic workers paying into Social Security […]

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    IV. Major Demographic Characteristics

    Although some significant differences are apparent from city to city, a general portrait emerges of a young, disproportionately male, sample that has recently arrived in the United States (Table 9). Compared with the adult population of Mexico, the sample is relatively well educated, but it fares poorly in comparison with the general level of educational […]

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    II. Voting in Mexican Elections

    Nearly nine of ten respondents (87%) in the Survey of Mexican Migrants said they would cast votes in the next Mexican elections from the United States if they could. Only a tenth of the respondents (10%) said they would not. The same overwhelming sentiment in favor of voting in Mexican elections was expressed across every […]