Data Reveals There Are Now More Mexicans Leaving The US

Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA, a group that advocates for lower amounts of illegal and legal immigration, said it’d be a mistake to see the slow down in Mexican migration as the United States’ immigration boom’s ending.

A third of the adults in Mexico surveyed (33 percent) said those who emigrate to the US have about the same quality of life as those in their own country.

But for the first time in more than four decades, more Mexicans are leaving the U.S. than entering the country.

More Mexicans are leaving the U.S. than moving into it in a reverse of 50 years of migration, according to a new study.

The study found that between 2009 and 2014, 870,000 Mexicans left their country to move to the United States, while 1 million Mexicans left the United States to return home.

In fiscal 2013, deportations of Mexican immigrants reached a record high of almost 315,000, an increase of 86% since 2005, when a policy shift made it more likely that Mexican border crossers would get deported, be barred from legal re-entry for a number of years and risk criminal prosecution if entering illegally again in the future, instead of simply returned to Mexico with no consequences attached.

The Pew Research Center analyzed data from the governments of Mexico and the US, which show that the flow of Mexican immigrants has been reduced since the 1990s. New immigrants and their descendants accounted for 55% – or 72 million – of this growth. Other reasons include lack of jobs in the US – courtesy of the Great Recession, an improving economy in Mexico and tighter border security.

“That’s the reason we’re not expecting the level will go back to what it was”, Gonzalez-Barrera said.

A recent study done by the Pew Research Center on Hispanic Trends reveal that there are more Mexicans returning to their home country from the USA than ever before.

Also, the report notes that, despite the claims of many Republicans, there has been a substantial decline in undocumented Mexicans living in the US, which “partly reflects tougher enforcement at the southwest border”. Past year and this fall, US immigration authorities detected an uptick in illegal immigration from Central America.

Far smaller shares said they had been deported (14 percent) or returned to look for work (6 percent). Highways and rail lines that connect to the world’s largest economy north of the border have attracted more investors. Others cited job opportunities in Mexico.

However, a new report from the Pew Research Center indicates that immigration from Mexico has been dramatically declining for years.