More Mexicans left than came to USA in past 5 years

Pew says that between 2009 and 2014, more than 1 million Mexicans went back home while 870,000 other Mexicans came here, leaving a Mexican deficit of 140,000. 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.

Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants cross the US-Mexico border every year.

This reversal comes after what has been one of the greatest waves of migration in recent history, with an estimated 16 million Mexicans moving to the U.S.in the past half century.

“The influence on the American worker is pretty much the same, whether they are coming from Mexico or any place else”, he said. “But the United States isn’t as attractive”. Ted Cruz said building Trump’s great immigration wall along the Mexican border would also be a priority for him.

The report echoes studies that had recorded drops in illegal immigration, but it delves into the reasons driving the trend and contrasts the drop with the number of Mexicans who leave the United States. By comparison, approximately 3 million Mexicans came to the United States in the five-year period between 1995 and 2000. During the 2014 fiscal year, the rate of apprehended Mexican immigrants at the southwest US border fell by almost 227,000 – a rate not seen since the early 1970s.

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.

He said those workers, combined with their relatives who can later join them in the United States through the country’s generous family migration rules, represent constant job competitors for underemployed Americans. “It’s been nearly 10 years that migration from Mexico has really slowed down”.

As to the underlying reasons for the results of the Pew study, she concluded, “I would not say that Mexico has more of a pull”.

The current overall flow of Mexican immigrants between the U.S. and Mexico is at its lowest since the 1990s. 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. 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.

Lee said Mexican visitors to the U.S pay sales taxes-an economic subsidy to Southern Arizona.