yeah, right... 
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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More good news, the mass immigration to Europe has reversed and the photos of long lines we have seen are Muslims returning to Syria.
There may have been a drop in Mexico immigrants but I’m not sure that applies to other
countries south of Mexico. Mexico has had some industrial economic growth such as auto
production that may have helped provide jobs.
The WSJ and Pew can take a hike, I’m not buying it.
Exactly my reaction, but it looks like you and I are the only ones that see it that way.
I think you are correct. And I keep reading stories about increase in importation over the border. I think I will wait to see what the spring “immigration season” brings before I get excited.
yeah, right...
I don’t believe the article. I haven’t seen it here. Of course if a couple of hundred left no one would know because we have so many to start with. Lol
But what about the: Guatemalans, Nicaraguan's, the Costa Rican's and whatever you call the people from Belize?
That's actually not news. But how about Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, etc., for whom Mexico was providing a passageway, as long as travelers weren't violating the sovereignty of Mexico (which they feel matters) on their way to Gringo Suckerland up in el norte? Any word?
700 un-escorted kids over the border recently is NOT more leaving the US.
Mine went to redline and the whole darn thing blew up.
Yup! And his little Neocon operators McCain and Graham got the US into a bad spot in the ME
Now Pooty-Poot will end up owning the oil lines, and we end up living in Alta Sonora!
Good Job Roopert, you schmuck
Spring always brings a group coming in to do labor jobs
such as farming/landscaping/foundations/etc.
My sentiments exactly.
first thing I though of to, but I’ll bet they all have a P.O box in some border town for their WELFARE checks.
Cheaper to live in Mexico...than here.
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This was just heard on the local NBC station in Dallas moments ago. The news reader was talking about the terrorists caught on the US/Mexican border being handed over to ICE and many illegals were leaving the US ...the Mexican legals returning to Mexico. Do we believe it? Not hardly. Nothing coming from this administration or the propaganda arm of this administration is true or believed. But to see the incoming on this particular subject at the moment is over the top. Sob stories everywhere you look. We’re here from Syria, feel but our families who are still in the country...feel our pain. BS BS BS Round them up and send them back home.
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