The conclusions are based on government data here and in Mexico.
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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.
By comparison, 14 percent of Mexicos return migrants said the reason for their return was deportation from the USA, and only a small share (6 percent) gave employment reasons.
Data from the 2014 Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics (ENADID) showed one million Mexicans, including families and their U.S.-born children, moved from the U.S.to Mexico. In contrast, just 870,000 Mexicans came to live in the USA, resulting in a net loss of about 140,000 Mexican immigrants.
“Measuring migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. is challenging because there are no official counts of how many Mexican immigrants enter and leave the USA each year”, Pew said.
Pew has been tracking flows for about 15 years, said Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, a research associate who wrote the report.
Estimating the number of illegal immigrants in the United States is both hard and controversial.
Fabio Peña, president of the Federation of Michoacán Clubs in Orange County, said heightened border security and stepped-up enforcement of illegal immigration is keeping people in Mexico who might otherwise cross over.
When Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump launched his campaign this summer, he did so with a call to stem immigration from Mexico, which he said had exploded. Undocumented immigrants accounted for 5.6 million of that population a year ago, down from 6.9 million in 2007.
The NY Daily News reports that many Mexicans are simply leaving the country to return to their families.
For the first time in decades, the number of Mexicans migrating to the United States has been fewer than the number that left, likely because it sucks here and the jobs are all shitty and people here are racist as fuck.
A majority of the Mexican immigrants who left the US for Mexico between 2009 and 2014 did so on their own, according to a Mexican survey cited in the Pew report.
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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. Although the rate of Mexican apprehensions dropped, apprehensions of Central American migrants peaked at nearly 253,000. He said China and India send the most immigrants to the US each year, and that most Asian immigrants come to the USA through the legal immigration system to pursue an education or to work.
