More Mexicans Leaving Than Coming to the U.S.

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Pew Research Center

More Mexicans Leaving Than Coming to the U.S.

November 19, 2015

Net Loss of 140,000 from 2009 to 2014; Family Reunification Top Reason for Return

By Ana Gonzalez-Barrera

More Mexican immigrants have returned to Mexico from the U.S. than have migrated here since the end of the Great Recession, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of newly available government data from both countries. The same data sources also show 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.

From 2009 to 2014, 1 million Mexicans and their families (including U.S.-born children) left the U.S. for Mexico, according to data from the 2014 Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics (ENADID). U.S. census data for the same period show an estimated 870,000 Mexican nationals left Mexico to come to the U.S., a smaller number than the flow of families from the U.S. to Mexico.

Measuring migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. is challenging because there are no official counts of how many Mexican immigrants enter and leave the U.S. each year. This report uses the best available government data from both countries to estimate the size of these flows. The Mexican data sources — a national household survey, and two national censuses — asked comparable questions about household members’ migration to and from Mexico over the five years previous to each survey or census date. In addition, estimates of Mexican migration to the U.S. come from U.S. Census Bureau data, adjusted for undercount, on the number of Mexican immigrants who live in the U.S.

Read more: http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/11/19/more-mexicans-leaving-than-coming-to-the-u-s/

[Turbineguy]

1. Now we know why Trump wants to build a wall.

If they left the economy would collapse.

[underpants]

4. I'll be surprised if he doesn't take credit for it

Seriously

[merrily]

2. American Exceptionalism!

How sad is that? Poor people fleeing the richest nation in the world. If you ain't one of the 158 families, fuhgeddaboudit.

[valerief]

3. THIS^^^

[forest444]

6. Amazing, isn't it.

We are being made to resemble our southern neighbor more and more as time goes by - though not in the sense Republican racists mean. But rather, precisely in the sense that you mean.

Quelle tragédie.

[KamaAina]

5. Could this be a leading indicator of a recession?

[adir]

7. Yes. This trend will reverse when the economy improves.

That is what has happened in the past.

[eppur_se_muova]

8. This has been true for some time. Cons still haven't noticed -- or it's too useful not too.

I suspect the latter.

[Le Taz Hot]

9. The drought in California and elsewhere

has caused massive unemployment for farmworkers so it doesn't surprise me. There's just no work here.

[underpants]

10. This could explain the crappy produce I'm seeing at the store.

Tomatoes especially are horrible.

[Le Taz Hot]

11. Tomatoes at this time of year

are coming from Mexico and South America which means they're picked green and have to travel hundreds of miles before it gets to the retail outlets.

[tclambert]

12. Donald Trump to claim credit for scaring them out in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .

[packman]

13. Well, I'm glad the Repukes solved that problem

Spew enough hatred, vitriol, and misinformation and yank the welcome mat out from under their feet. God bless America.

[Judi Lynn]

14. More Mexicans Are Leaving the U.S. Than Coming in, So You Can Stop Talking About the Wall Now

More Mexicans Are Leaving the U.S. Than Coming in, So You Can Stop Talking About the Wall Now
11/19/15 8:48pm

All this talk of a wall between the U.S. and Mexico has tainted the discussion about immigration in the U.S. — so much so that it’s made us forget about some pretty simple facts.

A new study released by the Pew Research Center on Thursday reported that more than 1 million Mexicans and their families left the U.S. for Mexico from the years 2009 to 2014. Meanwhile, over the same period, a total of 870,000 Mexicans came to the U.S.

That, in the simplest of terms that even politicians can understand, means that over those five years, there was a net flow 140,000 people from the U.S. to Mexico. Many of the families leaving for Mexico, the study says, also included children born in the U.S. About 61 percent of the families who’d returned to Mexico responded to surveys saying that they were leaving to reunite with family.

Data like this is generally tricky to calculate, because there’s no official count of how many people come in and go out. But using a national household survey and census data from both countries, the research came up with pretty reliable count.

More:
http://gawker.com/more-mexicans-are-leaving-the-u-s-than-coming-in-now-1743660161

[caprichoso]

15. Conservatives won't mention

This fact.