Reverse flow: More Mexicans depart U.S. than arrive

[TexasTowelie]

More Mexicans are leaving than coming to the U.S. as families reunify, are forced to reunify and for other reasons, the Pew Research Center says today in a new report. Three years ago, Pew reported zero net migration, after an extraordinary exodus from Mexico that reshaped great portions of the U.S., especially Texas and California. Today, Pew reports there's a net loss of 140,000.

"…the overall flow of Mexican immigrants between the two countries is at its smallest since the 1990s, mostly due to a drop in the number of Mexican immigrants coming to the U.S.," said Ana Gonzalez-Barrera in her report, which distills data from both countries.

What are four top points from the Pew report?

#1 One million Mexicans, including their U.S.-born children, returned to Mexico from 2009 through 2014. A 2012 report for a different and overlapping time period, 2005 through 2010, shows that 1.4 left for Mexico.

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[LiberalArkie]

1. Maybe we can get them H1B visas now.

[Renew Deal]

2. Mantequilla!

?

[edhopper]

3. which ones are going back?

The rapists or the some, I assume, are nice people.

[KamaAina]

4. I suspect this may be the leading indicator of a recession

No hay trabajo al norte. (there is no work up there)

[underahedgerow]

5. Or the fact that Mexico has more jobs now. The kids that they kept sending money

home to got their education and are now graduating and getting good jobs and making decent businesses. There is hope and improvement in Mexico. That's what I get out of this news.

Hard work by decent people paid off. Call me optimistic. I love Mexico. A number of their indicators have shown improvement in recent years, in particular their international import and export; a benefit of NAFTA. It's still not all shiny perfect, but it's getting better.

http://www.focus-economics.com/countries/mexico

[pampango]

6. Don't tell Trump. His infamous wall will be a xenophobic boondoggle. n/t

[Kber]

8. Hating Mexicans is passé anyway. Hip hatesters have moved on to bashing Syrians these days.

[TlalocW]

7. I half expect republicans to get pissed about this now

Oh, our country isn't good enough for them! In fact, it's so bad, they think Mexico is better! Maybe Obama should go to Mexico because he hates 'Murica so much!

Etc.

TlalocW

[Gormy Cuss]

9. ROFL

Sadly, you may be right.

[AnnieBW]

10. Mittens Was Right!

They are "self-deporting!"

[Recursion]

11. I've said for a while the GOP border fence isn't to keep people *out*...

... any more than the Berlin wall was, though both the GOP and the GDR claim it's to "protect" those of us inside it from those outside.