More Mexicans leave U.S. than Enter - GoFuckYourself.com

Barefootsies · 04-23-2012, 07:01 PM

Interesting. Looks like they are heading for the jobs shipped over the border.

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A four-decade tidal wave of Mexican immigration to the United States has receded, causing a historic shift in migration patterns as more Mexicans now leave the United States for Mexico than the other way around, according to a report from the Pew Hispanic Center.

It is the first reversal in the trend since the Depression, and experts say that a declining Mexican birthrate and other factors may make it permanent.

Middle class marches along in a changing Mexico: While many Mexicans and their neighbors to the north still imagine a country of downtrodden masses dominated by a wealthy elite, the ranks of the middle class are swelling.

“I think the massive boom in Mexican immigration is over and I don’t think it will ever return to the numbers we saw in the 1990s and 2000s,” said Douglas Massey, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and co-director of the Mexican Migration Project, which has been gathering data on the subject for 30 years.

Nearly 1.4 million Mexicans moved from the United States to Mexico between 2005 and 2010, double the number who came a decade earlier. The number of Mexicans who moved to the United States during that period fell to less than half of the 3 million who came between 1995 and 2000.

The trend could have major political consequences, underscoring the delicate dance by the Republican and Democratic parties as they struggle with immigration policies and court the increasingly important Latino vote.

Illegal immigration has emerged as one of the most emotional political issues in the country — one that dominated much of the Republican presidential contest and has proven complicated for President Obama.

Mitt Romney has courted conservatives with aggressive anti-illegal immigration rhetoric. But the GOP presidential hopeful has said in recent days that he wants to build ties with Hispanics, many of whom have chafed at his statements, and the new immigration trends could offer him a chance to soften his stance.

Obama has been criticized by immigrant advocates for stepped-up deportation policies that analysts have said were partly responsible for the decreasing flow of Mexicans into the United States. The trend could offer the president a political silver lining: The chance to take credit for a policy success that, his aides have said in the past, should persuade Republicans to embrace a broad immigration overhaul plan.

The reversal appears to be a result of tightened border controls, a weak U.S. job and housing construction market, a rise in deportations and a decline in Mexican birthrates, said the study, which used U.S. and Mexican census figures and Mexican government surveys. Arrests of illegal immigrants trying to enter the United States have also dropped precipitously in recent years.

Whether the reversal is temporary or permanent, it could have significant implications for the United States. The country has 12 million Mexican immigrants, and many work in agriculture and construction.

One in 10 people born in Mexico live in the United States, and more than half entered illegally. Most live in California and Texas; about 120,000 live in the Washington region.

The report does not specify how many of those who moved to Mexico had been in the United States illegally. But the statistics imply that many of them had been: The number of undocumented Mexicans here dropped from 7 million in 2007 to 6.1 million in 2011, while the number of those here legally increased slightly, from 5.6 million in 2007 to 5.8 million in 2011.

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CYF · 04-23-2012, 07:34 PM

looks like they're following the jobs.

jigg · 04-23-2012, 07:42 PM

isn't VW building a plant down there, Audi as well. Looks like things are improving

Someone I know told me about 30 of her Brazilian friends left and went back to Brazil. Some green card holders

raymor · 04-23-2012, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by CYF

looks like they're following the jobs.

That's what I've been hearing.

epitome · 04-23-2012, 07:51 PM

I'm just going to bait people and remind them that 3 out of the 5 years of mass exodus was during a Republican President.

Flame away, flame away.

bronco67 · 04-23-2012, 08:35 PM

Does this mean a white person will be doing my lawn soon?

Rochard · 04-23-2012, 09:15 PM

They go where the jobs are.

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Originally Posted by bronco67

Does this mean a white person will be doing my lawn soon?

I swear I have the only white landscaper in northern California.

jscott · 04-23-2012, 11:17 PM

Reminds me of that Southpark episode LOL

just a punk · 04-24-2012, 04:04 AM

The Great Mexican Exodus?

just a punk · 04-24-2012, 04:06 AM

And I guess there they are moving to...

DWB · 04-24-2012, 04:59 AM

Just think of all the low level, low paying, long hour, back breaking jobs that are going to open up for Americans!!! Obama is going to put an end to that pesky high unemployment number after all.

Maybe he really is The Messiah.

pornguy · 04-24-2012, 05:25 AM

" Middle class marches along in a changing Mexico: While many Mexicans and their neighbors to the north still imagine a country of downtrodden masses dominated by a wealthy elite, the ranks of the middle class are swelling. "

sounds to me that someone needs to actually VISIT Mexico.. But good news is they raised the daily minimum wage to 7$ a day. Up from 5$

iSpyCams · 04-24-2012, 05:45 AM

I guess destroying our economy is one way to deal with immigration. I hear burning your house down will solve most pest problems.

czarina · 04-24-2012, 05:50 AM

it is not surprising, since while the US was experiencing lots of financial issues, the mexican economy was still growing.

videoscribe · 04-24-2012, 05:58 AM

I think the United States government is worrying about removing illegal aliens. The legal Mexicans can sure stay in United States. Millions are coming and millions are leaving. There is sure a lot of activity on the border.

mchacal · 04-24-2012, 08:28 AM

Leaving the ship before it sinks

Barefootsies · 04-24-2012, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by DWB

Just think of all the low level, low paying, long hour, back breaking jobs that are going to open up for Americans!!! Obama is going to put an end to that pesky high unemployment number after all.

Maybe he really is The Messiah.

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