Islam Times - Latinos in US oppose Obama policy

Islam Times - Hispanics in the United States have disapproved of the country's President Barack Obama's deportation program, according to a new study.

The results of the study by the Washington-based think-tank, Pew Hispanic Center, were released on Wednesday, showing that 59 percent of the surveyed Latinos disapproved of the way the Obama administration had ruled on deportations.

Twenty-seven percent out of 1,220 adult Latinos, who had been quizzed across the country, said they favored the deportation policy, while 13 percent said they did not know the answer to the question or withheld their answers.

Last year, the Obama administration deported 396,000 undocumented immigrants -- a seven percent increase since 2008.

Over 50 million Hispanics form the largest and fastest-growing minority in the United States, according to the US Census Bureau report of 2010.

Two-thirds of the US-based Latinos supported Obama for president in 2008 over his Republican rival John McCain.

However, the survey found that, despite the opposition to his deportation program, support for Obama and the Democratic Party remained strong among Hispanics voters as the African American intends to run for reelection in 2012.