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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Yeah, total BS.
Translation: We at the Wall Street Journal of Cheap Labor have been unable to derail the Trump express. Thus, we will sprinkle some magic fairly dust and pray to unicorn gods to abra cadabra evaporate the rationale for Trumps rise.
So you rubes, no need to vote for Trump anymore, the cheap labor is going home. But have you considered Jeb?
Nope. The Mexican consulates that conveniently provide multiple identifications in different names allow Mexicans in the US to vote in their elections without leaving.
“Caramba, this place is full of illegals! Too crowded, I’m going home!”
Which is why we have to bring in a million Syrians, otherwise how are we ever going to meet our quota?
What they are saying is that they have found ways to bring illegals in legally. If they don’t call you illegal, then you don’t get counted as illegal.
We don’t know what we don’t know.
I’m skeptical there are less Mexicans, but even if there is we have plenty of others breaking in from other Central American countries.
“Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.”
-RIP Yogi.
Not that I was a huge Romney fan, but it appears that his "self deportation" would have worked. And his calling Russia the biggest geo-political threat (only to be mocked by Obama and the media) turned out to be more right than anyone else at that time. I can't help but think that if some of the conservative Christians that stayed home because he wasn't "pure" enough, we might be in a better position now. (Flame retardant suit on, even though I realize Romney was not a Conservative, but was only conservative on some issues).
Not that I was a huge Romney fan, but it appears that his "self deportation" would have worked. And his calling Russia the biggest geo-political threat (only to be mocked by Obama and the media) turned out to be more right than anyone else at that time. I can't help but think that if some of the conservative Christians that stayed home because he wasn't "pure" enough, we might be in a better position now. (Flame retardant suit on, even though I realize Romney was not a Conservative, but was only conservative on some issues).
Not necessarily. I think the Hispanics immigrating illegally today are NOT from Mexico, but points further south. Mexico is currently considered one of the "has" nations.
Exactly!!
Open borders WSJ/Fox Murdoch is only here for the money.
I wish I could deport the SOB
I'm shocked. I thought they went home to make Christmas tamales.
That article, if nothing else, provides comic relief for it’s obvious attempt at distraction from the truth.
Don’t some go home for Christmas?
Maybe going home for Holidays then back to the USA for the birth of their 5th child on us.
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