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Mexican Migration May Be Over

true liberal Wrote: Dec 10, 2012 6:40 AM

So when will the mass migrations from the US to Mexico begin? With Obama in charge there will be unemployment stuck at abound 8% with real unemployment at about 12%. Inflation is going to hit (it already has but has not been reported) and the dollar is going to weaken. Recovery is not going to happen because of all of the regulation that makes jobs here too expensive. China will move on. They actually already have and have an economic partnerships with countries in the region. The US thinks it is the economic powerhouse but that was so yesterday

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Mexican Migration May Be Over

Is mass migration from Mexico to the United States a thing of the past?

At least for the moment, it is. Last May, the Pew Hispanic Center, in a study based on U.S. and Mexican statistics, reported that net migration from Mexico to this country had fallen to zero from 2005 to 2010.

Pew said 20,000 more people moved to Mexico from the United States than from there to here in those years. That's a vivid contrast with the years 1995 to 2000, when net inflow from Mexico was 2.2 million people.

Because there was net Mexican immigration until 2007, when...

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