The slow recovery of the economy after the recession may have made the United States less attractive to potential Mexican migrants and may have pushed out some Mexican immigrants as the job market deteriorated. Meanwhile, tougher border enforcement has deterred some Mexicans from coming to the United States.
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From 2009 to 2014, one million Mexicans and their families left the US, according to the Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics. Mexico remains numero uno for immigrants, “at least for now”, according to a different distillation of Census Bureau data by Pew.
Among the 1 million migrants returning to Mexico from the USA, there were 720,000 who had been residing in the U.S.in 2009 and were living in Mexico in 2014. He said the country continues to see a massive stream of foreign workers entering on work visas, sometimes overstaying those visas and sometimes sponsoring their entire families to come with them.
Carson has called for a border wall and drone strikes, though immigration from Mexico now is at a net minus. In 1970, fewer than 1 million Mexican immigrants lived in the U.S. By 2000, that number had grown to 9.4 million, and by 2007 it reached a peak at 12.8 million.
However, the American Dream still appears to hold some sway over the Mexican imagination, as 35% of respondents in Mexico said they would move to the US if they had a chance, and one-fifth of adults said they would do so illegally, according to data from the Pew Research Center. During the 2014 fiscal year, the rate of apprehended Mexican immigrants at the southwest USA border fell by almost 227,000 – a rate not seen since the early 1970s.
Another estimate based on United States census statistics showed approximately 870,000 Mexicans immigrated to the USA from Mexico. An additional 14 percent had been deported, and six percent said they returned for jobs in Mexico.
It seems the endeavor of migrating simply isn’t worth it to more and more Mexicans, with a growing share saying life in the U.S.is neither better nor worse than it is in Mexico. However, 52.3 percent of the Mexican population is below the poverty line.
“It’s not like all of a sudden they decided they missed their mothers”, Myers told the AP.
Also, Mexico’s population is aging, meaning there’s less competition for young people looking for work there. They’re rapists,”he said during his campaign announcement in June”. A desire to reunite with family members is another.
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Farmworkers recruited from Mexico to harvest United States crops had followed the seasons back and forth across the border until 1965, when the U.S. imposed numerical limits on Latin American immigrants for the first time, launching new waves of illegal immigration that flowed north for decades thereafter. “I could help them while I was there, but family comes before money”.
