The study also concludes that the “overall flow” of Mexican immigrants between Mexico and the U.S.is at its lowest point since the 1990s.
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Not only that, but, according to Pew, a majority of the 1 million Mexicans who have left the United States did so of their own accord, mostly to be reunited with families.
The number of Mexicans living in the USA has dropped by more than a million in less than a decade, marking a historic shift: more Mexican migrants now leave the States than enter.
Pew said that their results confirm a tendency toward less Mexican migration and more such nationals returning home.
Though the research is based on government statistics, the report said it is hard to determine exactly how many people are coming and going.
The decline in the flow of Mexican immigrants to the United States is due to several reasons, the report said.
The Pew report offered a few hints about the future, including this: In 40 years, Asians are expected to surpass Latinos as the largest immigrant group in the United States. It now criminalizes people who cross the border a couple of times.
The arrival of young immigrants from Mexico and Asia has helped keep the USA population younger than the populations of otherdeveloped countries in Europe and parts of Asia.
Feliciano Bermejo, 49, lived in the USA for 21 years before returning voluntarily to Mexico this year.
Pew said many Mexicans surveyed during face-to-face interviews indicated that life wasn’t much better in the U.S. than in Mexico, and that many departed voluntarily, in many cases to be with their families.
The number of people leaving the US began to fall off in 2010. Only 14 percent surveyed said it was worse. However, a growing number (33 percent in 2014) believe that life is no better in the US than in Mexico; the number who believed that in 2007 was only 23 percent. The slow recovery of the economy after the recession may have made the USA less attractive to potential Mexican migrants and may have pushed out a few Mexican immigrants as the job market deteriorated.
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In fact, according to a new study, not only is immigration from Mexico down, but it has practically reversed, with more Mexicans leaving the US than entering it. 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.
