Mexico has about 100 million people. The U.S. has about 300 million. Soon they will all be here and the border will be a non-issue. Kidding of course.
However, I did see an article recently that stated Mexican migration to the U.S. would slow to a trickle in the near future. One reason they said is because so many are already here and the other is because Mexico supposedly has one of the lowest birth rates now.
I'm not re-assured. Cause they have one of the highest here.
In 2005, Mexico had 21.17/1000 birth rate compared to our 14.14/1000; it will continue to run this way for some time.
No one has any idea of how many Mexicans there are in Mexico. Since 1965, about 25 million have come here that we know about. In addition, I would guess (and my guess is just as good as the government's, maybe better)there are about 25 million illegals presently here.
Bottom line, right now, there are probably getting to be about 100 million Mexicans in the Unites States, give or take 10 million, legally, illegally, or the offspring of same. I would be delighted to be proven wrong, but I and the highly paid technocrats of my government are, scientifically speaking, just not far apart in ignorance of this fascinating subject because of the illegal immigration question.
Any attempt, well-meaning or not, to compare Mexican immigration to any other previous immigration is fatuous in the extreme.
Mexifornia?