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Immigration Reversal: More Mexicans Leaving Than Entering U.S.

For the first time since the Great Depression, more Mexicans are leaving America than are coming in.

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.

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One Comment

  1. RightOn

    April 24, 2012 at 5:08 pm

    Those poor Mexicans and I am sure other immigrants lost all hopes of changes, lost the dreams when the light on the top of the hill went off due to the failure of the wind farms in the Mojave desert. So they went home where they can find jobs in the GM, FORD and other US corporation manufacturing plants that were driven out of the US by a fake global warming scare and the EPA.