Mexicans Fleeing Third World Country, Heading Back to Mexico

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    A four-decade tidal wave of Mexican immigration to the United States has receded, causing a historic shift in migration patterns as more Mexicans appear to be leaving the United States for Mexico than the other way around, according to a report from the Pew Hispanic Center.

    It looks to be the first reversal in the trend since the Depression, and experts say that a declining Mexican birthrate and other factors may make it permanent. “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,” said Douglas Massey, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and co-director of the Mexican Migration Project, which has been gathering data on the subject for 30 years.

    Nearly 1.4 million Mexicans moved from the United States to Mexico between 2005 and 2010, double the number who did so a decade earlier. The number of Mexicans who moved to the United States during that period fell to less than half of the 3 million who came between 1995 and 2000.

    The trend could have major political consequences, underscoring the delicate dance by the Republican and Democratic parties as they struggle with immigration policies and court the increasingly important Latino vote.

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[mtraininjax]

Come on Arizona! Win that Supreme court battle!

[I-10east]

The USA isn't the one that's the third world country here....

[ChriswUfGator]

The USA isn't the one that's the third world country here....

The fact that illegal immigrants are fleeing back to Mexico to escape the economic conditions doesn't make you think twice, lol?

[ben says]

It's not just Mexicans...it's Cubans, too. I'm close with a half dozen or so in the Cuban community. They all regret coming here in the first place. Read that a second time, then a third. Let it sink in. I shit you not...not only did they say it, they believe it. They said it was good the first 5-10 years, and now it's complete shit, day by day, barely surviving. Most are hoarded up together in houses over in St. Nick. And, for most of them, I agree. Hell, I'd rather be in Cuba with free healthcare & my own home than cleaning houses for rich people who treat them like slaves here.