The Pew Research Center released a report on Thursday which reveals some astonishing facts about Mexican immigrants. According to it, more Mexicans are now returning to their home country in comparison to the number of Mexicans going to United States, which has happened for the first time in decades.
The report showed statistics according to which, between the years 2009 -2014, approximately 870,000 Mexicans entered United States, whereas 1 million went back home, leading to a net loss of 130,000 Mexican immigrants for United States. This shocking change comes at a time when immigration has become a combative subject in the presidential race of 2016, where both the Republican and Democratic parties are constantly battling over the best way of rejuvenating the Immigration System of the nation.
It was stated by the director of Hispanic research at the center, Mark Hugo Lopez, that the main reasons behind the fall in the number of Mexican immigrants were the Great Recession in the United States which made job hunting more difficult, a progressing Mexican economy, as well as stricter border security.
Mr. Lopez further mentioned that there are chances of an increase in the number of Mexican immigrants into the country if the economy of United States keeps improving. However, due to the stable growth of Mexico’s economy and tighter security along the Southwest Border, chances are that United States won’t be able to receive a huge influx of legal and illegal Mexican immigrants like it did in the recent decades, where the number of Mexican immigrants hiked up from 3 million to an astonishing number of 13 million immigrants.
“The nature of immigration itself is beginning to change,” Lopez said. “It looks like Mexican migration is at an end.”
An alarming number of Central Americans have escaped violence in the past years, limiting the country’s capacity to process requests for asylum. Moreover, United States is receiving more immigrants from China, India and other Asian countries who are coming in as students and high-tech workers. The director also added that chances are that Asians will hold a majority share of the immigration population in the near future.
The downtrend in Mexican migration also signifies that the profile of Mexican-born Immigrants In The United States has altered drastically. They have become more settled in the U.S., are older on average and have finished high school and college at higher rates. For example, 76% of Mexican-born immigrants in the United States had not completed high school in 1990. In comparison, 42% had completed high school and 18% had started or graduated from college by the year 2013.
The report also showed that only 14% out of the 1 million Mexicans who returned to their country since 2009 gave deportation as the reason behind their move back to Mexico. A majority said they came back out of their own will, whereas 61% claimed they did so to reunite with their families.
Moreover, Mexicans have fewer ties to people living in the United States. In 2007, 42% of Mexicans surveyed by Pew said they kept in touch with friends or family in the United States, in contrast to 35% in 2015.
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