The team’s conclusions, reached via a thorough investigation of data from Mexican household surveys and censuses from both countries, also noted that a “genuine spike in immigration” did occur between 1970 and 2000 before the Mexican immigrant population started to experience a “precipitous drop off”. According to the Pew Research Center from 2009 to 2014 an estimated 870,000 Mexicans came to the United States, while one million returned home. 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.
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Although the Pew study indicates there has been a net loss in migrants between the United States and Mexico, with more Mexicans leaving than coming in recent years, the numbers involved are still very large.
In coming years, he said, the amount of Mexicans may rise again in case the USA market continues to enhance. That was attributable mostly to the lack of Mexicans entering the United States.
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. And only 35 percent of adults in Mexico say they have friends or relatives they regularly communicate with or visit in the US, down 7 percentage points from 2007, Pew found. It now criminalizes people who cross the border a few times. “We do fear for her safety, so you know, that’s something that always adds more stress, on top of the school work and other things”, Gonzalez said Gonzalez’s story and struggle isn’t all that uncommon. It asks whether anyone from the household had left for another country during the previous five years; if so, additional questions are asked about whether and when that person or people came back and their reasons for returning to Mexico. “It’s been nearly 10 years that migration from Mexico has really slowed down”.
The net outflow appears to be due to a combination of factors including stricter US immigration enforcement and the negative impact of the economic recession that began in 2008.
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The NY Daily News reports that many Mexicans are simply leaving the country to return to their families. The number of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. peaked in 2007 at 12.8 million. However, keeping in mind the steady growth of Mexico’s economy and tighter controls along the southwest border, there is ample chance that the country will not see another massive wave of immigrants anytime soon.
