Attention Donald Trump: More Mexican immigrants have left the United States than entered

Pew found that from 2009 to 2014, slightly more than 1 million Mexicans returned to Mexico while about 870,000 Mexican nationalsmigrated into the US, a net shift of about 140,000.

Mexicans comprise the largest portion of the US immigrant population and made up 28 percent of all new immigrants who came to the United States in 2013. But since the recession, that Mexico-to-U.S. flow has weakened significantly, and more migrants have been returning to Mexico than arriving in the USA, a new Pew analysis finds. According to a Pew research study published today, the desire to reunite with family back home – not economic or employment reasons – has motivated Mexican immigrant men and women to return to Mexico. However, the inflow had already been on the decline, even prior to the US financial crash in 2008.

Fewer Mexicans entered the country partly because of the USA recession in the early part of the period examined, while there was a boom in Mexico’s economy. Since 2010, for the first time in 14 years, more people emigrated from the European Union to Latin American and Caribbean countries than the other way around, according to the worldwide Organization for Migration.

The Washington-based Pew Research Center determined that the return migration of Mexican nationals and their families has been higher than migration heading to the U.S.in the past decade.

A third of the adults in Mexico surveyed (33 percent) said those who emigrate to the US have about the same quality of life as those in their own country. The numbers of immigrants from both China and India have increased in recent years, and may have passed up Mexico.

Additionally, his administration focused enforcement on people who had been removed previously from the country and were caught trying to re-enter illegally. But here’s the clincher: By 2065, Pew projects that there will be 441 million people living in the United States, and an astonishing 88% of that growth will be attributed to future immigrants and their offspring. The latest effort has been blocked in the courts by Republican governors. That number has dropped to 5.6 million.

The Democratic presidential candidates largely agree on immigration policy.

The slow down in Mexican migration also means the profile of Mexican-born immigrants in America has changed drastically. Over the past 50 years, the total USA population has grown from 193 million to 324 million.

So why are they leaving? He lost to Obama in part because he captured only 27 percent of the Hispanic vote. That’s according to the latest Pew Research Center report out Thursday analyzing data from 2009 to 2014.

Los Angeles Times: Why fewer Mexicans are leaving their homeland for the U.S. It’s the lowest flow of Mexican migrants into the USA since the 1990s.