Thursday, November 19, 2015

Mexican Immigration to U.S. Reverses. More Mexicans leaving U.S. to return home than arrive here, ending the largest wave of immigration in modern American history

The Wall Street Journal reports:
Migration of Mexicans to the U.S. has plunged to a net negative for the first time since the 1940s, bringing down the curtain on the largest wave of immigration in modern American history, according to a new study.

The Pew Research Center found that more Mexicans have been leaving America to return to their home country in recent years than arriving in the U.S. It based the study on an analysis of U.S. and Mexican government data.

Mexican migration has been falling for some time. But the Pew figures released Thursday suggest that the surge in legal and illegal Mexican immigration that helped transform America—and remains a contentious issue on the presidential campaign trail—may have peaked for good.

“Mexican migration to the U.S. has been one of the world’s great migration stories, and this data shows it has come to an end,” said Mark Hugo Lopez, director of Pew’s Hispanic Research.

In a shift, Asians now represent the only group in the U.S. that is growing because of immigration.
You'll want to read this article. Many people will question the math.