To reach their conclusion, Pew researchers looked at numerous sources of available data, including a Mexican national household survey, two Mexican censuses and U.S. Census data.
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The primary reason for the decline, Pew said, is the desire of immigrants to reunite with their families in Mexico.
“Measuring migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. is challenging because there are no official counts of how many Mexican immigrants enter and leave the United States each year”, Pew said.
During the same five-year period, 870,000 Mexicans entered the U.S. – resulting in a net flow into Mexico of 140,000 people. Mexicans are by far the largest nationality among undocumented immigrants.
The report found that 1 million Mexicans and their families (including U.S.-born children) left the US for Mexico from 2009 to 2014.
But the ones who’ve really got their knickers in a knot are immigration hardliners who are panicked by a Mexican invasion that isn’t.
Over 16 million Mexicans immigrated to the U.S. from 1965 to 2015, more than from any other country. However, a Pew Research Analysis released on November 19th, revealed that more Mexicans are leaving the United States than the number coming in.
Fear is just one of the reasons representatives at Raices here in San Antonio say many of their Mexican clients have expressed going back to Mexico. 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.
“In 2007, 42% of Mexican adults said they kept in contact with acquaintances living in the United States, while today, 35% say so”, the study said. Immigration activists and Latino groups had dubbed him “deporter-in-chief” for the high deportation rate.
The report says illegal immigration from Mexico declined from a peak of 6.9 million in 2007 to 5.6 million past year, and the number of apprehensions at the border dropped to about 227,000, a level not seen since the early 1970s.
Additionally, his administration focused enforcement on people who had been removed previously from the country and were caught trying to re-enter illegally.
Nearly universally, Republicans deride President Obama’s immigration policies as “amnesty”, despite his having deported more than 2 million illegal immigrants since taking office, more than any other president in USA history.
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However, the report found that the majority of Mexicans in the U.S. who returned home did so “of their own accord”.
