Three-quarters of Latinos surveyed consider the growing number of immigrants attempting to cross the border to be a major problem or crisis. About two-thirds of Latinos indicated that speeding up asylum decisions by increasing the number of judges and staff would alleviate the problem.
But only a third of Hispanics supported increasing deportations of people who are in the country irregularly. Only about a quarter considered that substantially expanding a wall on the border between the United States and Mexico would be a way to resolve it. The survey comes about a month after Customs and Border Protection reported its highest monthly number of illegal crossings.