Thread: 271,000 Mexicans slip into poverty in US

271,000 Mexicans slip into poverty in US
2010-01-31 04:30:00

/EFE) About 271,000 Mexican immigrants have slipped into poverty in the US, Spanish banking giant BBVA said in a report.

It said between the fourth quarter of 2008 and the same period last year, 'the number of workers of Mexican origin with jobs decreased by approximately 560,000'.

For that reason, the number of workers of Mexican origin who are currently unemployed increased to about 1.8 million, 'of whom around 51 percent are immigrants', according to the report Saturday.

The bank said 60 percent of the jobs lost in the US last year were from the construction and commerce sectors, while in the manufacturing sector, nearly 1.4 million people became unemployed.

As a result, the unemployment rate of Mexican immigrants in the US grew from roughly eight percent to 12 percent.

The poverty rate of Mexican immigrants increased from 19.7 percent in 2007 to 27.1 percent in 2009. In 2008, it was 24.8 percent.

As a consequence, remittances to Mexico dropped by 15.7 percent in 2009, compared with the figure in 2008. The fall in remittances was the biggest since Mexico began keeping track in 1995.

The US is home to 12 million Mexicans, about half of them illegal immigrants.

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The US is home to 12 million Mexicans, about half of them illegal immigrants.


It's more like 40 million . Somehow saying 12 million does not sound so bad .

Again confusing immigrant with illegal alien. Don't give a rat's cute patoot about unemployment among illegals, except the American taxpayer will end up supporting his entire family. From the article, it sounds like the unemployment rate trends with the general unemployment rate among Americans. Doesn't the article's author feel sorry for the rest of us too? The only difference is we don't work the system for freebies.

Wonder how many of these illegals are getting benefits?

You still see Spanish speakers on most every residential construction site in NC and most of them probably have illegal dependents and U.S. anchor children.