Explaining Students’ Attitudes towards Undocumented Latin American Immigrants in USA

The purpose of this research study is to introduce a novel model explaining college students’ attitudes toward undocumented Latin American immigrants in the US. For this purpose, the author surveyed a representative sample of 225 Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) students in the state of Georgia in USA. The outcome variable is “GGC students’ opinion on undocumented Latin American immigrants’ contribution to improve or degrade the US culture.” The assumption is that the input variables of the model: social structure, group threat, self-interest, and cultural identity affect college students’ attitudes towards undocumented Latin American immigrants in the US. Results reveal that the expected probability of a student being anti-immigrant has higher probabilities (18.32%), as compared to a student having pro-immigrant attitudes (1.5%) of indicating that the Latin American immigrants contribute to degrading the US culture.