Mexicans Leaving US

From USA Today:

"More Mexicans returning home, fewer immigrating to U.S."

 

Mexican immigration to the United States is on the brink of a historic reversal: More Mexicans may be going back to Mexico than coming in, according to a Pew Hispanic Center report Monday. Sponsored LinksThe influx of Mexicans, which has dominated U.S. immigration patterns for four decades, began to tumble in 2006 and 2007 as the housing bust and recession created a dearth of jobs. At the same time, the number of Mexicans returning to their native country along with their U.S.-born children soared. Stricter border enforcement, more deportations and tough state immigration laws such as the Arizona statute being challenged before the Supreme Court on Wednesday probably also contributed to the shift, says Jeffrey Passel, lead author of the report. The study analyzed data from censuses and a variety of other sources in both countries. "There was a suspicion that people were going back" but results of the Mexican census confirmed it, he says. "They point to a fairly large number of people going back to Mexico." From 2005 to 2010, 1.4 million Mexicans came to the USA— down by more than half from the 3 million who came from 1995 to 2000. From 2005 to 2010 , the number of Mexicans who moved from the USA to Mexico rose to 1.4 million, roughly double the number who had done so 10 years before. Passel says the data suggest that the return flow to Mexico probably surpassed the incoming flow in the last two years. He attributes some of the changes to lower fertility rates in Mexico (an average of 2.4 children in 2009, compared with 7.3 in 1960) and improving social conditions there. According to the report, a growing share of illegal immigrants who are sent home say they won't come back to the USA: 29% in 2010, compared with 7% in 2005. Mexican flows are key to the immigration debate because 58% of the 11.2 million immigrants here illegally are Mexican. Just over half of all Mexican immigrants in the USA are here illegally.

^ I fail to see the importance of this trend - especially when dealing with the 58% of Mexican illegals the article talks about. I am all for allowing more legal Mexicans into the US if they want to come, but any illegal (whether Mexican, Russian, Japanese, etc) should be deported. With the poor economy it is forcing Americans to start doing the jobs that used to be done by illegals and this article stating that the illegals are returning to their host country is good since that opens up more jobs for Americans and legally-documented immigrants. ^

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-04-23/mexican-immigration-united-states/54487564/1