Family, border dangers keep Mexicans from returning to US

More than one million Mexicans and their families, including their US-born children, returned to Mexico from 2009 to 2014 after living in the US. In contrast, just 870,000 Mexicans came to live in the USA, resulting in a net loss of about 140,000 Mexican immigrants.

Although the report also hints that Mexican opinions about the USA could be changing.

It seems the endeavor of migrating simply isn’t worth it to more and more Mexicans, with a growing share saying life in the U.S.is neither better nor worse than it is in Mexico.

Carson has called for a border wall and drone strikes, though immigration from Mexico now is at a net minus.

In the 50-year wave of migration since 1965, more than 16 million Mexicans came here, far more than from any other country, Pew has reported.

The Pew report offered a few hints about the future, including this: In 40 years, Asians are expected to surpass Latinos as the largest immigrant group in the United States. 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.

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.

A study released Thursday by Pew Research Center, however, argues that the number of illegal immigrants from Mexico has declined over the past five and 10-year periods.

“The influence on the American worker is pretty much the same, whether they are coming from Mexico or any place else”, he said.

This decline, according to the report, has been mostly due to the smaller number of unauthorized Mexican immigrants now living in the U.S. There were 6.9 million unauthorized immigrants from Mexico living in the U.S.in 2007.

Pew found that the main motive for the move to Mexico was the desire to either reunite families or begin one. And only 35 percent of adults in Mexico say they have friends or relatives they regularly communicate with or visit in the USA, down 7 percentage points from 2007, Pew found.

As Donald Trump vows to shield America from a deluge of Mexican migrants, he may be a bit flabbergasted by this fact: More Mexicans have actually left the States than entered it in recent years.