Mexican immigration flow to USA has reversed

More Mexicans are leaving the United States than moving into it in a reverse of 50 years of migration, according to a new study. It said that USA census data for the same period shows an estimated 870,000 Mexicans entered the U.S. This decline, according to the report, has been mostly due to the smaller number of unauthorized Mexican immigrants now living in the U.S. There were 6.9 million unauthorized immigrants from Mexico living in the U.S.in 2007.

-There’s been stricter enforcement of US immigration laws, especially at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Pew said that their results confirm a tendency toward less Mexican migration and more such nationals returning home.

“Mexico has an aging population, just like the United States”, said Leo Chavez, a UC Irvine professor who has written on immigration patterns.

Heightened border security, implemented under the Obama administration, also may have deterred people from making the journey north, Gonzalez-Barrera said: “Border security has a big impact in terms of people wanting to come here”.

The figures, which are estimates based on government data from both countries, also indicated that the migration flow of Mexicans to the U.S.is at its lowest level since the 1990s.

So, to all the political candidates working themselves into a racist tizzy over what’s to be done about all the immigrants who want to come to the USA and exploit its freedoms and resources or whatever: Don’t worry.

Most Mexicans leaving the United States are doing so voluntarily to reunite with their family or to start one, the report by the Pew Research Center showed.

Slow recovery from the Great Recession, making jobs more hard to find.

The flow of Mexican citizens to the U.S. has been declining steadily since reaching its peak in 2000. In 2007, 42% of Mexicans surveyed by Pew said they kept in contact with friends or family in the United States.

Mexicans have always been considered the largest proportion of immigrants in the US, although it now seems that the Asians are becoming the most dominant share of the immigrant population. Only, 14 percent of Mexico’s return migrants said they were obliged to leave the US.

Immigration is a hot topic as the U.S. presidential campaigns heat up, especially after Republican billionaire Donald Trump claimed that Mexican immigrants include drug traffickers and rapists.