The reason cited by 61 percent of the Mexican nationals who returned was a desire to be reunited with their families back home. Many of them stayed, as the Pew study indicates that the number of Mexican nationals living in the United States hit a peak of 12.8 million in 2007, at which point the number began to fall. By 2014, 33 percent made the same assessment.
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“The nature of immigration itself is beginning to change”, Mark Hugo Lopez, director of Hispanic research at the Pew Research Center, told USA Today.
And Governor Doug Ducey recently created a super-sexy Arizona Border Strike Force Bureau within the state Department of Public Safety to fulfill his campaign pledge to do everything in his power to help secure the Arizona-U.S. border. Mexico also is the largest source of US unauthorized immigrants, the Pew report says. “It resembles Mexican migration is at a conclusion”. While many parts of Mexico suffer grinding poverty and violence, others have become thriving manufacturing centers under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Additionally, the drop in the number of Mexicans living in the USA is reflected in communication between those who used to live in the States and those who still do.
According to the Pew study, more than 16 million Mexicans left their home country to come to the United States over the course of the last 50 years.
In the 1990s, Mexico was slammed by an economic downturn, and a tremendous number of people born in the 1970s was finally entering the labor pool. In contrast, just 870,000 Mexicans came to live in the US, resulting in a net loss of about 140,000 Mexican immigrants.
The figures, which are estimates based on government data from both countries, also indicated that the migration flow of Mexicans to the U.S.is at its lowest level since the 1990s.
The new migration pattern “stands in very stark contrast to the rhetoric we’re hearing in the presidential primaries”, said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor of political science at UC Riverside.
Additionally, his administration focused enforcement on people who had been removed previously from the country and were caught trying to re-enter illegally.
In 2014, the PRC says, there were about 5.6 million undocumented Mexicans living in the US, compared to the 6.9 million residing in the U.S.in 2007. Another reason, Pew said, is the USA economy isn’t as attractive to migrants than it was in previous decades. “There is still much more to be earned here than in Mexico”.
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The NY Daily News reports that many Mexicans are simply leaving the country to return to their families. The Pew study found that only 14 percent of those who returned to Mexico in that time period did so because they’d been deported.
