More Mexicans Going Home Than Coming to the US
A new report from the Pew Research Center finds more Mexicans are now leaving the United States than are coming into the country.
Still, the number of Mexicans willing to migrate to the United States is unchanged from 2009, the report shows.
Additionally, the drop in the number of Mexicans living in the USA is reflected in communication between those who used to live in the States and those who still do.
The push people have been feeling to leave now is about as strong as the pull of families in Mexico wanting folks to return.
Since then, the Mexican-born population has declined, falling to 11.7 million in 2014, as the number of new arrivals to the US from Mexico declined significantly; meanwhile the reverse flow to Mexico from the U.S.is now higher, the report says.
Of the 1 million migrants who returned to Mexico between 2009 and 2014, only 14 percent reported being deported, according to a survey by the Mexican government Pew analyzed. But using a national household survey and census data from both countries, the research came up with pretty reliable count.
According to another Pew report, by 2065, Hispanics are expected to make up 31% of immigrants.
Between 1995 and 2000 alone, 2.27 million Mexicans migrated to the US, spurred on by the promise of a better life.
The findings counter the narrative of an out-of-control border that has figured prominently in US presidential campaigns, with Republican Donald Trump calling for Mexico pay for a fence to run the entire length of the 1,954-mile frontier.
Fear is just one of the reasons representatives at Raices here in San Antonio say many of their Mexican clients have expressed going back to Mexico.
In another first, the Border Patrol took more people from countries other than Mexico into custody in 2014, than those from Mexico. Over the past 50 years, the total U.S. population has grown from 193 million to 324 million.
Overall, the center found that more Mexicans were leaving America than coming in. The increased cost and difficulty of crossing the border, coupled with the US economy’s slow recovery after the recession, are also driving numbers down.
The decline in the flow of Mexican immigrants to the U.S.is due to several reasons.
Generations of immigrants have headed to the U.S.in pursuit of the American Dream or at least a better life than the one available in their homeland. Of these, 20 percent said they would do it illegally. Mark Hugo Lopez, director of Hispanic research at Pew, said that the immigration from south to north is “at an end”.
Good to finaly see a end to all the mexicans coming here to Oregon and selling drugs and stealing.