New Study Says More Mexicans Are Leaving the U.S

In fact, according to a new study, not only is immigration from Mexico down, but it has practically reversed, with more Mexicans leaving the US than entering it.

According to the Pew Research Center from 2009 to 2014 an estimated 870,000 Mexicans came to the United States, while one million returned home. Between 2009 and 2014, 1 million people departed for Mexico, including children of Mexican descent who were born in the United States, according to the 2014 Mexican National Survey of Dynamics. FNL also reports that this study follows a 2012 Pew study that found that net migration between the US and Mexico was at zero.

When Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump launched his campaign this summer, he did so with a call to stem immigration from Mexico, which he said had exploded. The story included comments from Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez who said the law will cause many undocumented immigrants to flee from minor incidents from fear of being deported. In 2007, almost 13 million Mexicans were living in the United States, about 7 million illegally. Even so, most of the million Mexicans who crossed back over the border from the United States did so of their own volition, not because they were deported.

“The effect on the American worker is pretty much the same, whether they’re coming from Mexico or anywhere else”, he said.

By comparison, 14 percent of Mexicos return migrants said the reason for their return was deportation from the USA, and only a small share (6 percent) gave employment reasons.

The exact reasons for the decline are hard to determine, but researchers believed they were likely related to anemic USA economic growth since the Great Recession, a comparatively more robust Mexican economy and tighter border control efforts on the American side.

A report last week from the Pew Research Center shows that more Mexicans are leaving the United States than are coming in. From 1965 to 2015, more than 16 million Mexicans moved to the US – more than from any other nation. About 6 percent said they had found jobs there.

It’s the lowest flow of Mexican migrants into the US since the 1990s.

She says Mexican migration is in a new phase, and it will not return to the levels it once had. Over the past decade, more immigrants have come to the United States from Asia – mainly China, India, Korea, Philippines, and Vietnam – than from any other region in the world, now making Asians the fastest growing immigrant population in the United States.

The number of unauthorized Mexican immigrants has declined, too.