More Mexicans are leaving United States than coming in

To its southern neighbor, the United States once represented hope, safety and prosperity. “It would be much better to look at things based on real facts, and the real fact is that immigration from Mexico has not only stopped, now it is going the other way”, he said. 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.

More Mexicans are now leaving the USA than are coming into the country. Another 14 percent said they returned because they were deported from the USA and 6 percent cited to find a job or because they got a job in Mexico. But the Great Recession and weak recovery has caused a reversal in the U.S.-Mexico immigration relationship, with more heading south than traveling north.

“We finally have the evidence to show that the net flow is negative”, Gonzalez-Barrera said. “It shows that the fixation on Mexican migration is very outdated”. That includes 5.6 million living in the USA illegally, down from 6.9 million in 2007.

What all of this suggests, of course, is that the illegal immigration “problem” is widely overblown and that the rhetoric from Trump and others is, at this point, nothing but opportunistic nonsense built on fear, half-truths, ignorance, and xenophobia.

Three and a half years ago, the Pew Hispanic Center reported that one of the largest waves of immigrants to ever enter the United States from a single country – Mexico – had come to a standstill.

In the 1990s, Mexico was slammed by an economic downturn, and a tremendous number of people born in the 1970s was finally entering the labor pool.

“Today, a third (33%) of adults in Mexico say those who move to the US lead a life that is equivalent to that in Mexico”, the report said.

The findings counter the narrative of an out-of-control border that has figured prominently in US presidential campaigns, with Republican Donald Trump calling for Mexico pay for a fence to run the entire length of the 1,954-mile frontier.

He said: “This is something that we’ve seen coming”.

In the 2000s, the US began to change its border policy.

“I’ve definitely heard community members asking more pointed questions about when are the elections for the people who passed this bill?” she said.

 The study used both Mexican and U.S. government census data to calculate the migration flow between their borders.

More Mexicans returned home from the United States over the last five years than immigrated to the country, according to research out Thursday.