Mexican migration into the United States has come to a standstill and may soon reverse, according to a report by the Pew Hispanic Center. This marks a dramatic change in the wave of Mexican migration that brought 12 million people to America over four decades.
About 1.4 million Mexicans
immigrated to the United States between 2005 and 2010, which is roughly
the same number of Mexicans who left over the same period.
The number of illegal immigrants
from Mexico dropped from 7 million in 2007, a peak, to 6.1 million in
2011. The report attributes the drop to the drastic decline in
birthrates in Mexico, the increasingly dangerous passage across the
border, and the flagging American economy. A higher percentage of
deported migrants now say in surveys that they will not attempt to come
back into the United States (compared to 10 years ago).
The United States' estimated 12
million Mexican immigrants represent the largest chunk of immigrants in
any country in the world. Mexico has sent more immigrants to the States
over the past four decades than any other nation.
According to the Mexican census,
500,000 U.S. citizen children were living in Mexico in 2010, compared to
240,000 10 years earlier. Government data doesn't say how many of those
children left the United States because their parents were deported.
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