More Mexican migrants returning home

The study found that between 2009 and 2014 around 1 million Mexicans and their families, including American-born children, left the USA for Mexico.

In a historic shift, a new report has revealed that more Mexican immigrants are returning to their home country than coming to the United States.

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

“This report uses the best available government data from both countries to estimate the size of these flows”. It’s the lowest flow of Mexican migrants into the US since the 1990s. The percentage of Mexican nationals citing employment, though, may not reflect an accurate picture – if people had jobs they liked in the us, the lure of family back home would probably not be so appealing. The ENADID survey identified that the importance of family is the primary reason for migrating back to Mexico.

The arrival of young immigrants from Mexico and Asia has helped keep the US population younger than the populations of otherdeveloped countries in Europe and parts of Asia.

Pew noted that the number of Mexicans now living in the United States stands at about 11.7 million, down from a peak of 12.8 million in 2007. Taking out the 670,000 that moved back to Mexico, the result was an increase of over 2 million Mexican residents. This is despite the growing number of immigrants coming to the USA from Central America.

As for the news regarding migration from Mexico, it would appeat aar that the fact that the economy in that nation is in far better shape than it used to be in the past and Mexicans themselves are becoming relatively more prosperous.

Mexico is the largest birth country among the USA foreign-born population – 28 percent of all US immigrants came from there in 2013. Six in ten (roughly 61 percent) of these immigrants have said that they are leaving the U.S.to be reunited with their families. According to a previous Pew report, border apprehensions in 2014 fell to a 1971 level, indicating that relatively few Mexicans were even trying to cross. “I would not say that Mexico has more of a pull”, Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, Pew research associate and author of the study, told the Los Angeles Times. Of these, 20 percent said they would do it illegally. 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. They support immigration reform with a path to citizenship and agree with Obama’s recent executive actions to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation.