A new survey found that 42 million people from Latin America and the Caribbean region want to immigrate to the United States. “There are 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Roughly 450 million adults live in the region. Gallup asked them if they would like to move to another country permanently if they could,” said Gallup’s CEO Jim Clifton, whose company conducted the poll, in an article Wednesday. “A whopping 27 [percent] said ‘yes.’ This means roughly 120 million would like to migrate somewhere.” Then he added: “Of those who want to leave their country permanently, 35 percent—or 42 million—said they want to go to the United States.” The poll comes as a surge of illegal immigrants have attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in recent weeks, as White House officials have told them that the border is closed and not to come. This week, a Democratic congressman whose …