Jul 3, 2012

Immigrants express shock at return of Mexico's PRI

AP: Mexico's new president may dissuade some immigrants from returning home, despite promising economic opportunities there and a faltering U.S. job market.

SAN DIEGO — Mexico's new president may dissuade some immigrants from returning home, despite promising economic opportunities there and a faltering U.S. job market.

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 said Monday that they were shocked his Institutional Revolutionary Party - which largely convinced them to leave their homeland - has returned to power.

"I think most immigrants kind of fled Mexico because of the PRI, and they still carry visions of a PRI that was corrupt and murderous," said Guadalupe Sandoval, an 18-year-old San Diego college student who said she closely watched the race. "I'm definitely surprised." Read more

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