From 2009 to 2014, an estimated 870,000 Mexicans came to the United States while 1 million returned home, a net loss for the United States of 130,000, according to the report from the Pew Research Center. The findings are based on U.S. Census Bureau surveys that measure immigrant inflow from Mexico along with data from the National Survey on Demographic Dynamics (ENADID) conducted by Mexico’s chief statistical agency (INEGI) to measure migration back. Fourteen percent left after being deported. According to another Pew report, by 2065, Hispanics are expected to make up 31% of immigrants.
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Besides the shrinking middle class in the United States, the stricter enforcement of USA immigration laws, may have also contributed to the reduction of Mexican immigrants coming to the U.S. in recent years. The total Mexican immigrant population in the United States peaked in 2007, at 12.
In coming years, he said, the amount of Mexicans may rise again in case the USA market continues to enhance. The overwhelming reason for returning to Mexico was to reunite with family or after starting a family. 2014 resulted in the fewest number of apprehensions at the border since 1971 – indicating an overall drop in crossing attempts. However, a growing number (33 percent in 2014) believe that life is no better in the USA than in Mexico; the number who believed that in 2007 was only 23 percent.
The Pew Research Center analyzed data from the governments of Mexico and the US, which show that the flow of Mexican immigrants has been reduced since the 1990s.
While President Obama has spent more on border security than any other modern administration, Donald Trump thinks we need a wall that would rival China’s. This is good news both for the Mexican economy and for the United States since it suggests that Mexico has, slowly but surely become a much more stable nation than it used to be.
The study notes that 28 percent of all USA immigrants came from Mexico in 2013. Mexico’s population is aging, he said, which means there’s less competition for jobs. There is no Mexican invasion of undocumented immigrants pouring into the country.
The new migration pattern “stands in very stark contrast to the rhetoric we’re hearing in the presidential primaries”, said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor of political science at UC Riverside. The Mexican questionnaire asked about residential history and found that 61 percent of those who reported living in the U.S.in 2009 but were back in Mexico past year had returned to join or start a family.
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But between 2005 and 2010, a large number of Mexican immigrants who’d settled in the US left.
