More Mexican immigrants leaving the USA than entering

T he migration flow of Mexicans to the U.S. is at its lowest level since the 1990s, a study released by Pew Research Centre showed on Thursday. After 2009, the number of Mexican immigrants returning home decreased, but the number coming into the USA fell further, ultimately raising the net loss of Mexican immigrants to the U.S.to roughly 140,000.

The report said most of the Mexican leaving the United States were doing so voluntarily to reunite with their family or else to start one.

Between 2009 and 2014, 1 million people departed for Mexico, including children of Mexican descent who were born in the United States, according to the 2014 Mexican National Survey of Dynamics. During the 2014 fiscal year, the rate of apprehended Mexican immigrants at the southwest USA border fell by almost 227,000 – a rate not seen since the early 1970s.

According to the New York Times, it is harder for illegal immigrants to enter the country now than it used to be, which may have also contributed to the shift.

The Pew study estimates that there are 5.6 million illegal immigrants now residing in the US, down from 6.9 million in 2007.

Dowell Myers, a public policy professor at the University of Southern California, said it’s lack of jobs in the United States – not family ties – that is mostly motivating Mexicans to leave.

What are Donald Trump and some of the other Republican candidates for president to do now that a new study shows that more Mexicans have been leaving the U.S.in the last five years than have been coming into this country?

And Governor Doug Ducey recently created a super-sexy Arizona Border Strike Force Bureau within the state Department of Public Safety to fulfill his campaign pledge to do everything in his power to help secure the Arizona-U.S. border.

Obama has said the US will take more Syrian refugees, despite doubts raised about the screening process.

The report also found that some of the characteristics of Mexican immigrants now living in the United States have changed.

Blame it on the stringent immigration norms or the quest to be reunited with their families, Mexican immigration into the US could soon be dwindling. In fact, one third of Mexicans say those who move to the US lead a life that is neither better nor worse than in Mexico.

Pew has been tracking flows for about 15 years, said Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, a research associate who wrote the report. An additional 14 percent had been deported, and 6 percent said they returned for jobs in Mexico. Compared with 2007, there is a 10 percent increase at the opinion that life in the U.S. is equivalent to that in Mexico.