The non-partisan research centre underlines though that measuring migration flows between Mexico and the United States is challenging because there are no official counts of how many Mexican immigrants enter and leave the USA each year.
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A new study of immigration to the United States shows that more Mexicans have returned home than have arrived here since 2009.
The largest changes came from 2009 to 2014 when approximately 1 million Mexicans (including American-born family members) left the USA while about 870,000 came here. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau was used to determine how many Mexicans entered the United States during the specified time period, and data from two surveys performed in Mexico was used to determine how many Mexicans left the United States. During the 2014 fiscal year, the rate of apprehended Mexican immigrants at the southwest US border fell by almost 227,000 – a rate not seen since the early 1970s.
Mexicans have been the largest source of migrants to the United States for decades, with 16 million Mexicans moving to the United States between 1965 and 2015.
More Mexicans are leaving the U.S. than moving into it in a reverse of 50 years of migration, according to a new study.
It goes on to say there were 11.7 million Mexicans living in the USA past year, down from 12.8 million in 2007.
But the U.S.is still an attractive destination. Additionally, Lopez said, immigrants from India, China and other Asian countries are coming as high tech workers and pupils.
That is probably still a conception that Americans hold about Mexican migrants: The numbers keep increasing as young men cross the border.
Mark Hugo Lopez, manager of Hispanic research in the facility, said the net decline in Mexicans was driven by the Great Recession in tighter border security, an improving market in Mexico and America that made it more hard to find occupations. “It would be much better to look at things based on real facts, and the real fact is that immigration from Mexico has not only stopped, now it is going the other way”, he said.
Obama has said the USA will take more Syrian refugees, despite doubts raised about the screening process.
“We haven’t seen that since the 1930s”, Gonzalez-Barrera told the Los Angeles Times.
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The net outflow appears to be due to a combination of factors including stricter USA immigration enforcement and the negative impact of the economic recession that began in 2008. 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.
