Posted on 11/19/2015 2:24:34 PM PST by 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.
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I do not believe one word of this. BS.
only 11?
but it could be true.
Perhaps with all the riff raff gone, Mexico has had a chance to pay down some debt, attract some business and has jobs.
i have never met a mexican that hated or loved the US. it was a piggy bank to work 70 hours a week and sooner or later go back home.
I haven’t met a DREAMER yet.
i met alot when i drove the cab
We don’t mind bucking the tide, do we? It’s good to be right. 😊
What a load of crap.
cut off the welfare and self-deportation increases dramatically.
exactly
Under Conservatives the Mexicans will be deported. Under Liberals, America isn’t worth coming to...
Ya. If this were true, I believe every leftist outlet would have already been screaming about the sky falling. There goes one of their new dependent class voter groups without a peep? I don’t think so.
They can just waltz in now and don’t have to bother with paperwork or anything, so we have no clue how many do so.
Any info on this study? Did Al Gore do it?
Mexico paid for this WSJ article in the hopes of not having to pay for the wall.
I do not believe this story. BUT... let us pretend it is true.
Who are you going to believe about the economy? Mexicans leaving the US for greened pastures in Mexico? OR government bureaucrats telling us the economy is just great?
Regardless of the number that have left there are many more millions of illegals still in the US. A wall needs to be erected so those that sel-deported will stay that way.
yeah, that’s why you see all those wet backs going south across the Rio Grande?
Is there any wonder folks fail to believe anything the news tells us any more?
I wonder if the IG can check to see if there are and EBT cards ore welfare checks being used in foreign countries?..................I’d bet the answer would be yes. ......and the amounts would be staggering.................
I have no proof of that, but it's just what I heard and don't doubt it.
I remember seeing that on a John Stossel report!.....................
Such bull sh@t.
We now live in a time like the Russians did, where “news” must be interpreted due to the misinformation given to the public.
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