Pew: More Mexicans Are Leaving US Than Coming In

 Mexicans have been the largest source of migrants to the U.S. for decades, with 16 million Mexicans moving to the USA between 1965 and 2015.

The Pew Research Center discovered that the main reason for Mexicans leaving the U.S.is to reunite with their relatives in Mexico.

A study released Thursday by Pew Research Center, however, argues that the number of illegal immigrants from Mexico has declined over the past five and 10-year periods. Fourteen percent left after being deported.

Reviewing Mexican census data, Pew reported that most Mexicans left the United States “of their own accord”, with about 6 in 10 migrants who returned home saying they were reuniting with family members. However, data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that immigrants from China – not Mexico or Central America – are the largest group that is now immigrating to the United States.

Few presidential hopefuls, most notably Donald Trump, have gone to great lengths to offend the Hispanic population in the US, accusing them of stealing jobs and calling them rapists – twice.

A new Pew Research study found that more Mexican immigrants have gone back to Mexico than have snuck across the border into the United States, creating a negative flow. There is no surge in illegal immigration from Mexico, instead there is a slow, but steady outflow, with more Mexican nationals departing than entering.

Still, the number of those who say they would move to the U.S. remains quite high, with 35 percent admitting that they would relocate if they had an opportunity. That was attributable mostly to the lack of Mexicans entering the United States.

An appeal’s court decision recently blocked a series of executive orders signed by President Obama in November 2014 that were created to protect a few 5 million undocumented immigrants from the immediate threat of deportation.

While the U.S. economy has struggled to recover, Mexico has been largely free of the economic slumps which drove generations of people to the USA in the 1980s and 1990s for work. That same survey found that 61 percent cited family reunification as the top reason for why they chose to go back to Mexico. What is significant, she said, is that there hadn’t been any evidence to show that the net flow from Mexico to the US was negative until now.

Like many people living on the U.S Mexico border traveling in and out of the United States is nothing new, but as the job market improves across from us people are returning to their homeland to reestablish their lives.