More Mexicans Leaving Than Coming to the U.S.

[Judi Lynn]

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.

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

LBN:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141265128

[Judi Lynn]

1. 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

[Xipe Totec]

2. México Lindo y Querido

si muero lejos de ti
que digan que estoy dormido
y que me traigan aquí.

Que me entierren en la sierra
al pie de los magueyales
y que me cubra esta tierra
que es cuna de hombres cabales


Beautiful and beloved Mexico,
If I die far from thee
tell them I'm only sleeping
and let them bring me here.

Let them bury me in the sierras
at the feet of the magueyes
let me be covered by the dirt
that was the cradle of true men.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Great hearing this song for the first time. Thanks for your thoughtfulness in posting it. n/t