Mexican Immigration to U.S. Reverses: More Leaving To Return Home Than Arriving

Wall Street Journal ^ | 11/19/2015 | Miriam Jordan

[SeekAndFind]

Migration of Mexicans to the U.S. has plunged to a net negative for the first time since the 1940s, bringing down the curtain on the largest wave of immigration in modern American history, according to a new study.

The Pew Research Center found that more Mexicans have been leaving America to return to their home country in recent years than arriving in the U.S. It based the study on an analysis of U.S. and Mexican government data.

Mexican migration has been falling for some time. But the Pew figures released Thursday suggest that the surge in legal and illegal Mexican immigration that helped transform America -- and remains a contentious issue on the presidential campaign trail -- may have peaked for good.

"Mexican migration to the U.S. has been one of the world's great migration stories, and this data shows it has come to an end," said Mark Hugo Lopez, director of Pew's Hispanic Research.

In a shift, Asians now represent the only group in the U.S. that is growing because of immigration.

About 16 million Mexicans flocked to the U.S. over the last 40 years—about half of them illegally. But between 2009 and 2014, some one million Mexicans returned to their country of origin, while 870,000 headed to the U.S., according to the report.

Pew's last study on Mexican immigration, in 2012, looked at the five-year period from mid-2005 to early 2010, when the outflow of Mexicans to the U.S. and return to Mexico were roughly even. During those years, 1.4 million Mexicans migrated north to the U. S. -- fewer than half as many as in the previous five-year period, when three million Mexicans came.

U.S. economic expansion fueled heavy immigration in the 1990s as Mexicans found jobs in construction, service industries and other sectors.

[al baby]

BS meter is going to eleven

[Red Badger]

They don’t want to be here when the muzzies start cutting of peoples’ heads................

[Savage Beast]

Maybe they don’t want to get blown up by ISIS.

[DennisR]

“Mexican migration to the U.S. has been one of the world’s great migration stories...”

What makes this a great story? That Mexico is so corrupt and backward that people have to leave it???

[lormand]

"BS meter is going to eleven"

Amen on that!

[Regulator]

About 16 million Mexicans flocked to the U.S. over the last 40 years

Oh Please. About 100% low estimate: the illegals alone are north of 20 million.

In 1970 there were like 4 million "hispanics" in the entire United States. There are now 60 million.

Towns that I lived in 35 years ago which had perhaps 1 Mexican (really) now have thousands.

The number is absurd and the article is an attempt to undermine Trump and the illegal immigration issue.

[euram]

I’m skeptical. Even if it’s true, it’s like taking a couple of buckets of sand off a beach.

[TADSLOS]

This Just In: Illegals hate to vote. They conveniently go home in droves every election year.

[TurkeyLurkey]

I don’t believe this for a minute.

[Regulator]

That Mexico is so corrupt and backward that people have to leave it???

Repeat with eyes glazed: "Mexico is Great" "Mexico is Great"

Then you have to go vote for Yeb!

[DoughtyOne]

The Wall Street Journal has no credibility with me.

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[4Runner]

Exactly my reaction.

[GeronL]

They have no idea how many are coming and going.

[hal ogen]

If true...who is going to clean my house??? Maybe I can convince one of my millennial neighbor's “adult” kids.

[jennychase]

I agree, this is rubbish

[Buckeye McFrog]

As illegal immigration is the #1 issue driving the entire campaign.

How convenient!

[pfflier]

Not in my neck of the woods. More spanish language billboards and TV commercials are showing up than ever before.

[drypowder]

The season is changing and the annual Mexican migration south always takes place this time of year.

[Norm Lenhart]

Flat out lie justified by selectively rewriting the numbers/stats.

On paper I was once a multi-millionaire. I couldn’t afford a new F350 though.