Already, of immigrants who’ve been in the United States for no more than five years, more have come from Asia (2.5 million) than from Central and South America (1.7 million). During the same period, an estimated 870,000 Mexicans came to the United States, Pew Research Center’s latest analysis of government data from both the USA and Mexico showed.
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“There are no official counts of how many Mexican immigrants enter and leave the US each year”, the report said.
The exact reasons for the decline are hard to determine, but researchers believed they were likely related to anemic US economic growth since the Great Recession, a comparatively more robust Mexican economy and tighter border control efforts on the American side. According to a previous Pew report, border apprehensions in 2014 fell to a 1971 level, indicating that relatively few Mexicans were even trying to cross. The reason cited by 61 percent of the Mexican nationals who returned was a desire to be reunited with their families back home.
-The slow recovery of the American economy after the Great Recession may have cut into the number of jobs available.
Most Mexicans leaving the United States are doing so voluntarily to reunite with their family or to start one, the report showed.
Six percent of ENADID’s survey respondents said they returned to Mexico due to employment circumstances, while 14 percent admitted they were deported from the U.S. Dealing with the flow of undocumented Latino immigrants into the United States has been a key issue of debate among democratic and republican presidential candidates vying for the nomination.
One influential factor in the decline of Mexican citizens entering the country might be a residual effect from the financial crisis, the Pew Center said.
Carson has called for a border wall and drone strikes, though immigration from Mexico now is at a net minus. Additionally, Lopez said, immigrants from India, China and other Asian countries are coming as high tech workers and pupils.
About half of all adults in Mexico still think those who have left Mexico for the US lead better lives than those left behind, but the growing share who don’t see much of a difference is the key to understanding the most recent cycle of immigration. Of these, 20 percent said they would do it illegally.
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Heightened border security, implemented under the Obama administration, also may have deterred people from making the journey north, Gonzalez-Barrera said: “Border security has a big impact in terms of people wanting to come here”.
