Esther J. Cepeda of the Chicago Sun Times offers "UIC study: May marchers mostly U.S. citizens". In addition to promoting the study, it's little more than an advertisement for tomorrow's march. Let's take a look at the study and see if there might be problems with it:

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

Can a study from anything called the "Immigrant Mobilization Project" really be trusted? Did they select the participants, or did the participants select them? Were they standing at the parade with a sign saying, "please tell us what we want to hear, since we've got the phone number of a gullible reporter"?

And, a search for a group by that name returns no results. Trying variants didn't work; the closest I found was this page, which is located in the Gender and Women's Studies department and which mentions the "anti-minuteman five" ("The individuals who were arrested at a Minuteman meeting there were charged with resisting arrest and damage to property–they slashed tires of Minuteman cars. Once they got to court, four pleaded guilty to damaging property and the charges against them for resisting arrest were dropped. The 5th individual was an illegal who fled from the area.").

If there's an actual UIC-sponsored study, or if a UIC professor did a study, I'd like to know about it.

As noted in the past, many of the "reporters" covering Chicago's marchers appear to be quite willing to put their race ahead of most other things, including whatever shreds of credibility they might have had.

Contact their editor John Barron at jbarron *at* suntimes.com and suggest he find real reporters.

UPDATE: The group mentioned above has since put up (or had indexed) their web page and it does exist. For the followup, see this post about Immigrant Mobilization Project and Nilda Flores-Gonzalez.