More Mexicans Now Exiting the US, Not Entering

More Mexicans and their children, some who are Mexican American, have left the USA than have migrated here during most of the administration of President Barack Obama, according to a report released Thursday by Pew Research Center.

According to a Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics for 2014, there were 1 million Mexicans who chose to leave the USA for Mexico from 2009 to 2014 with their families.

The overall flow of Mexican immigrants between the two countries is at its smallest since the 1990s, Pew said.

The report says illegal immigration from Mexico declined from a peak of 6.9 million in 2007 to 5.6 million a year ago, and the number of apprehensions at the border dropped to about 227,000, a level not seen since the early 1970s. “It is going to bring big changes in the composition of American immigration”.

The report focused on migration of Mexicans, not other nationalities. Meanwhile, tougher border enforcement has deterred some Mexicans from coming to the United States.

Additionally, the drop in the number of Mexicans living in the U.S. is reflected in communication between those who used to live in the States and those who still do.

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. Asians will end up the dominant share of the immigrant population, he added.

“It’s interesting that migration from Mexico appears to now be turning towards Mexico at the same time that migration from Asia seems to be on the rise”, Lopez said. A weak economy and poor job prospects likely deterred people from coming to the United States, or forced them to return home. “I would not say that Mexico has more of a pull”, said Pew research associate Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, who was the study’s author. Dealing with the flow of undocumented Latino immigrants into the United States has been a key issue of debate among democratic and republican presidential candidates vying for the nomination. More than three in four had been in the USA for more than a decade, compared to only half in 1990. “But the United States isn’t as attractive”. By 2013, 42% had completed high school and 18% had started or graduated from college.

A new study has revealed that there are more Mexicans leaving the USA than entering.

There are also some shifting perceptions in Mexico about living in the US, according to a PRC poll done in Mexico, with 33 percent of respondents saying, “Life is neither better nor worse north of the border”. In 2015, that figure had fallen to 35%.