Mexican Immigration Boom Is Over [Report]

More Mexican immigrants are leaving the United States than entering according to a recent study by the Pew Hispanic Center. The shift in new versus exiting immigrants marks the first time since the great depression that the United States has witnessed negative immigration numbers from south of the border.

According to the study immigration slowed in 2005 and likely reversed completely by 2010. The study says immigration numbers have likely reversed for several main reasons including a slipping US economy, tougher border enforcement, deportations and a declining Mexican birthrate.

The study also found that the return to Mexico in many cases involved entire families, including approximately 100,000 US-born children.

The study found that US born children had peaked at 12.6 million in 2007 but has fallen to 12 million over the last 4 years.

Speaking to the Washington Post co-director of the Mexican Migration Project says:

“I think the massive boom in Mexican immigration is over and I don’t think it will ever return to the numbers we saw in the 1990s and 2000s.”

This isn’t the first time America has seen a mass immigration pattern fall off, the same type of drops were witnesses decades ago from Irish and German immigrants who began to remain in their own country as infrastructures improved and jobs became more readily available. While Irish and German immigrations numbers were lower, the actual percentage of the population they made up was higher.

According to Pew:

“Apprehensions of Mexicans trying to cross the border illegally have plummeted by more than 70% in recent years, from more than 1 million in 2005 to 286,000 in 2011—a likely indication that fewer unauthorized immigrants are trying to cross. This decline has occurred at a time when funding in the U.S. for border enforcement—including more agents and more fencing—has risen sharply.”

If you would like to learn more you can Download the complete report.

In the meantime here is a report about returning Mexican workers going back to September 2011:

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