Mexico's electoral institute estimates 1.5 million voting cards still are carried by U.S. residents. A government proposal to allow absentee voting in the United States died in the Mexican Senate last year. Some immigrants are ignoring the obstacles. From Chicago and Austin, Texas, eye-catching caravans are winding their way south. One group from Yakima, Wash., set out on horseback before loading the animals onto trailers for the drive to Mexico.
People are really mad at the government.
After 71 years of unbroken rule by one party, many immigrants blame the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, for the bleak economic straits that forced them to seek their fortunes on foreign soil. In the polls, National Action Party candidate Vicente Fox is running about even with the PRI's Francisco Labastida. The ruling party has probably never come so close to losing. To want to get back at the PRI because you've had to leave your hometown. All Rights Reserved.