Pew’s researchers, using data from USA and Mexican government sources, found that 140,000 more Mexicans returned to Mexico than came into the US between 2009 to 2014.
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“The main reason for my return is family”, José Arellano Correa, a 41-year-old Mexico City taxi driver who came back from the U.S.in 2005.
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. As a new report suggests, for the first time in more than four decades, more Mexicans are leaving the US and going back to their homeland than arriving in the country.
Still, the number of those who say they would move to the USA remains quite high, with 35 percent admitting that they would relocate if they had an opportunity.
Between 1995 and 2000 alone, 2.27 million Mexicans migrated to the USA, spurred on by the promise of a better life. The percentage of Mexican nationals citing employment, though, may not reflect an accurate picture – if people had jobs they liked in the us, the lure of family back home would probably not be so appealing.
Pew has been tracking flows for about 15 years, said Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, a research associate who wrote the report. This decline is likely due to several factors, including the slow recovery of the USA economy after the Great Recession and stricter enforcement of US immigration laws, particularly at the U.S.-Mexico border. Ted Cruz said building Trump’s great immigration wall along the Mexican border would also be a priority for him.
Mexicans who remain in the USA are more settled than before, Pew said: Their median age was 39 years in 2013, compared to 29 in 1990. The Obama administration has deported more Mexicans than any other president.
The authors analyzed US and Mexican census data and a 2014 survey by Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography. That number has dropped to 5.6 million.
Ohio Governor John Kasich, one Republican presidential candidate opposed to Trump’s mass deportation plan. One effect of that can be seen the Mexican birth rate, In 1980, the fertility rate in Mexico was 7.3, meaning that the average Mexican woman in that year could expect to have seven children in her lifetime. The concept was to make life so hard for immigrants here that they would leave on their own.
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Los Angeles Times: Why fewer Mexicans are leaving their homeland for the U.S. Each asked all respondents where they had been living five years prior to the date when the survey or census was taken. Since 2007, immigration from Mexico has steadily decreased.
