More Mexicans leave FPSA than enter for first time since Great Depression!
WASHINGTON (PNN) - April 24, 2012 - A four-decade tidal wave of Mexican immigration to the Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) has receded, causing a historic shift in migration patterns as more Mexicans appear to be leaving the FPSA 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 Great Depression, and experts say that a declining Mexican birth rate 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.
According to the report, the Mexican-born population, which had been increasing since 1970, peaked at 12.6 million in 2007 and has dropped to 12 million since then.
The reversal appears to be a result of tightened border controls, a weak FPSA job and housing construction market, a rise in deportations, and a decline in Mexican birth rates, according to the study, which used FPSA and Mexican census figures and Mexican government surveys.
One in 10 people born in Mexico lives in the FPSA, and more than half entered illegally. Most live in Kalifornia and Texas; about 120,000 live in the Washington, D.C. region.
Although most Mexican deportees say they will try to return, their numbers are also shrinking. According to a Mexican government survey, 20% of deportees in 2010 said they would not return to the FPSA, compared with 7% in 2005.
It is better to be unemployed in Mexico than to be unemployed in the United States, because most migrant workers leave their families in Mexico, according to the report. “They miss the warmth of being in a welcoming community,” it said, adding that with tougher border control and more deportations, Mexicans would rather be in a “precarious situation than in a situation of fear.”
