Attention Donald Trump: More Mexican immigrants have left the U.S. than entered

Pew said that their results confirm a tendency toward less Mexican migration and more such nationals returning home.

The number of Mexicans living in the U.S. has dropped by more than a million in less than a decade, marking a historic shift: more Mexican migrants now leave the States than enter.

The overall flow of Mexican immigrants between the two countries is at its smallest since the 1990s, Pew said. Sixty-one percent of respondents who had lived in the U.S.in 2009 said they moved back to Mexico by 2014 to reunite or start a family.

Six percent of ENADID’s survey respondents said they returned to Mexico due to employment circumstances, while 14 percent admitted they were deported from the U.S.

While the USA economic recovery is sluggish, Mexico has been free in recent years from the economic tailspins that drove earlier generations north in the 1980s and 1990s.

The report also found that a few of the characteristics of Mexican-born immigrants in the United States have changed significantly.

In the past it was easier for immigrants to visit their families and return to the U.S. But with increased border enforcement, they remain in the US until family ties pull them back home, said Ana Gonzalez the author of the report.

“We know border security has been tightened significantly and we also know the draw of the U.S. economy was a lot less -but what’s really interesting is the family ties motivation for returning to Mexico”, Capps said.

Javier Diaz de Leon, the Consul General of Mexico in Raleigh, told me that the number of Mexicans coming to the United States has waned for years as the job market in Mexico has improved. Compare that to the period between 1995 and 2000 when almost 2.4 million Mexicans immigrated to America compared to the 670,000 who left to go back to Mexico.

That response doesn’t bother Cleveland, who dismissed the people who called for a veto of his law outside the Executive Residence.

These conditions made the US a much less attractive destination for Mexican migrant workers than it had been before, Pew reports. In 2007, this number stood at 6.9 million.

The findings offer a stark empirical rebuke to numerous leading Republican candidates for president, who have followed Trump’s lead by making immigration front and center to the campaign. There is no Mexican invasion of undocumented immigrants pouring into the country. One outcome of that can be seen the Mexican birth rate, In 1980, the fertility rate in Mexico was 7.3, meaning that the average Mexican woman in that year could expect to have seven children in her lifetime.

Interestingly, in the 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney supported “self-deportation” as immigration policy. “The groups that protest this type of thing do the same thing whenever they get their knickers in a knot”, Cleveland said.

The United States saw a net decrease in Mexican residents from 2009 to 2014, a report by the Pew Hispanic Center reveals.