The Great Mexican Migration is Over

PEW Hispanic Center states that the flow of Mexicans might have been reversed

WASHINGTON.-The biggest flow of migration in the history of one country (Mexico) towards U.S.A. is over and might have been reversed in the recent years, according to a study published this Monday in PEW Hispanic Center.

The change in this migration to the north is the result of different factors, including the construction crisis in the United States, a broader surveillance in the border, the increase in the deportations and the long-term decline in the birth rate in Mexico, according to the study.

"We cannot speculate about what will happen in the future, but based on what we have found out in this research, this tendency might reverse" Jeffrey Passel, a demographer in Centro Pew Hispano, explained.

In a conference call, Passel said that the goal of the Department of Homeland Security of the United States is precisely to "deter the Mexican community of migrating to the United States, that they don´t even try".

According to the figures in the census and other resources analyzed by the Centro Pew, the population of the United States was below the million people in 1930 and it grew so fast that by 1970 it was over 12 millions.

"The United States has nowadays, more immigrants from Mexico than from any other country in the rest of the world" he added. "Approximately the 29 percent of all the immigrants living today in the U.S.A. were born in Mexico".

The second country with the most immigrants in the United States is India, who has a 4,5 percent of the 40 million immigrants that live in this country today.

Centro Pew stated that it is possible that the Mexican immigration rate grows higher as the economy in the United States stabilizes.

"Compared with other immigrants, those of Mexican origin are younger, poorer, less educated and have a lower English proficiency and are less likely to have taken the U.S. citizenship" is explained in the report.

According to Centro Pew, almost 51% of the Mexican immigrants in the United States are illegal and of the 11, 2 million of illegal immigrants, the 58% are Mexican.

"The net huge decrease in the Mexican emigration -the difference between those who come to the U.S.A. and those that leave- started five years ago and has been the first decrease in two decades of illegal Mexican population" also is stated in the report.

Paul Tylor, head of the centre, stressed that Mexico is the country that has most emigration and that the U.S.A. is the largest recipient, making this data "so significant".

"The demographic patters in Mexico are changing and there is decrease in the tendency of families that are considering emigrating for economic issues and because the situation in the border is more complicated" he insisted.

Between 1995 and 2000, the study states that about 670.000 persons emigrated from the United States to Mexico, against the 2,94 millions Mexicans that arrived to the United States.

Between 2005 and 2010, 1,39 million persons went back to Mexico from the U.S.A. compared to a migration of 1,370 millions from Mexico to the United States.

In 2011, there were 6,1 million Mexican illegal immigrants in the United States, compared to a peak of nearly 7 million in 2007.

This near parity between immigrants and emigrants between U.S.A. and Mexico is the result of two tendencies that have converged in these last years.

Between 2005 and 2010 about 1,4 million Mexicans migrated to the U.S. compared to the 3 millions that had done so in the five years prior to this.

Simultaneously, the number of Mexican and their children that went from the U.S. to Mexico grew from 770.000 between the years of 2000 and 2004 to almost 1,4 millions between the years of 2005 and 2010.

According to the report from Centro Pew, the vast majority of people that since 2005 have migrated from the United States have done so voluntarily "but that a significant minority was deported and have remained in Mexico".

Nevertheless, these changes in the number of Mexican-American –immigrants and those Americans that have Mexican ancestors- keep growing: the Mexican American population reached the 33 million persons in 2010.

Between the years of 2000 and 2010 the birth rate exceeded the immigration as the cause for the growth of the Mexican American population and the population of persons from Mexico in the U.S. is the biggest seen in the population in many countries or union states.

editorial@sandiegored.com

Original Text : Efe Agency

Translation : Nicté Trujillo

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