UIC study: May pro-immigrant marchers mostly U.S. citizens who vote

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University of Illinois at Chicago researchers put a face Monday on the more than 400,000 people who hit the streets for May's immigration march: Most participants were male U.S. citizens of Mexican descent -- age 30 or younger -- who spoke English.

That portrait emerged two days before what Latino organizers hope will be another massive display to convince Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

The UIC researchers randomly selected 410 people and quizzed them during the May march from Union Park to Grant Park.

66 percent say they vote

Nearly 75 percent of those marchers were U.S. citizens, and 66 percent of those citizens said they vote, according to the survey by UIC's Immigrant Mobilization Project. That seems to blunt a perception that it was mostly illegal immigrants participating in the march in a show of force.

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