More Mexican immigrants leaving USA than entering – Pew

Data from the U.S. Census Bureau was used to determine how many Mexicans entered the United States during the specified time period, and data from two surveys performed in Mexico was used to determine how many Mexicans left the United States.

Feliciano Bermejo, 49, lived in the United States for 21 years before returning voluntarily to Mexico this year. The Mexican questionnaire asked about residential history, and found that 61 percent of those who reported living in the U.S.in 2009 but were back in Mexico a year ago had returned to join or start a family.

“Mexico has an aging population, just like the United States”, said Leo Chavez, a UC Irvine professor who has written on immigration patterns.

More Mexicans returned home from the United States over the last five years than immigrated to the country, according to research out Thursday.

Lopez also noted that the rise in the number of Asian immigrants coming to the USA could impact the immigration debate. These deportations were responsible for the removal of many undocumented immigrants from the country, and may have prevented others from trying to come to America illegally. In 2007, 42% of Mexicans surveyed by Pew said they kept in contact with friends or family in the United States.

The exact reasons for the decline are hard to determine, but researchers believed they were likely related to anemic US economic growth since the Great Recession, a comparatively more robust Mexican economy and tighter border control efforts on the American side.

A majority of the Mexican immigrants who left the US for Mexico between 2009 and 2014 did so on their own, according to a Mexican survey cited in the Pew report.

It may be futile to get the Republican presidential candidates to change their tune on immigration.

Last year, 16-year-old Yinglong Jia, his parents and his 9-year-old brother moved from the central China province of Henan to Irvine.

Pew’s Director of Hispanic Research, Mark Hugo Lopez, said that the era of mass migration from Mexico is “at an end”.

He further said that the number of Mexicans might increase again in the coming years if the USA economy continues to improve. “We think Mexican migration is definitely in a new phase, and it will not return to the levels it once had”. They’re rapists,”he said during his campaign announcement in June”.