More Mexicans Leaving The U.S.

The push people have been feeling to leave now is about as strong as the pull of families in Mexico wanting folks to return.

Pew’s findings accounted for both documented and undocumented immigrants.

GOP primary front-runner Donald Trump has campaigned on curbing illegal immigration, winning supporters by promising to force Mexico to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. The research found between 2009 and 2014, 1 million Mexicans left the United States for Mexico, whilst at the same time 870,000 Mexicans were entered the US.

Reviewing Mexican census data, Pew reported that most Mexicans left the United States “of their own accord”, with about 6 in 10 migrants who returned home saying they were reuniting with family members.

“The main reason for my return is family”, José Arellano Correa, a 41-year-old Mexico City taxi driver who came back from the U.S.in 2005. Another 14 percent said they returned because they were deported from the US and 6 percent cited to find a job or because they got a job in Mexico. Pew Research says this is because of the lack in numbers of Mexicans coming into the US.

But a sluggish US recovery during much of the period studied, combined with a growing labor market in Mexico, has added another reason for the new pattern – economic opportunity.

“We finally have the evidence to show that the net flow is negative”, Gonzalez-Barrera said.

The Washington-based Pew Research Center determined that the return migration of Mexican nationals and their families has been higher than migration heading to the U.S.in the past decade.

-There’s been stricter enforcement of USA immigration laws, especially at the U.S.-Mexico border. But strikingly, an increasing number of Mexicans interviewed for the study said that life north of the border was no better or worse than in Mexico itself.

Arizona Congressional candidate and Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, who hosted Carson in the above-mentioned tele-town hall, practically is a one-issue candidate, forever berating President Obama on Twitter and elsewhere for having “created an open border in our nation”. But here’s the clincher: By 2065, Pew projects that there will be 441 million people living in the United States, and an astonishing 88% of that growth will be attributed to future immigrants and their offspring. The latest effort has been blocked in the courts by Republican governors.

Pew noted that there were 11.7 million Mexicans living in the United States in 2014, which was down from a peak of 12.8 million in 2007. In the following five years, this number dropped almost in half, to about 1.4 million people. Illegal immigration increased from 1995 to 2000, when the net increase of migrants was 2,270,000, the study says.