Thread: Mexico suffers as its citizens leave for U.S.

Mexico suffers as its citizens leave for U.S.

Drug violence causes shiftin migrant demographics.
By Jason Buch
jbuch@express-news.net
Updated 11:43 p.m., Friday, March 4, 2011

The mass migration of Mexicans to the U.S. is not good for that country, said AgustÃ*n Escobar of Mexico's Center for Investigation and Higher Study in Social Anthropology Friday at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

The country has to deal with large numbers of its citizens being removed from the U.S. and returned to Mexico, the rate of immigrants dying as they try to enter the U.S. is increasing and Mexico's households are hurt when breadwinners head to another country, Escobar said at the Bilateral Perspectives on Mexican Migration Conference at UTSA's Mexico Center.

And while many Mexicans working in the U.S. do send money back to their families, known as remittances, other Latin American workers send back more, Escobar said.

“When you look at what Mexican migrants send (home), you see that that amount is much lower than the Mexican (gross domestic product) per capita,â€

Hey Mexico, stop all of the suffering please. Call all of your citizens back home.

i blame it on the Mexican corrupt government.
they keep people down. and then have the nerve to publish comic books telling its people how to come here illegally, avoid border patrol, follow the power lines because they run north-south, and how to blend in with others already in the town they choose.
32 of 36 pages of the comic book are devoted how to enter the US illegally

The title should read:

"American citizens suffer as illegal aliens flock to the U.S."

HippieChick wrote:

The title should read:

"American citizens suffer as illegal aliens flock to the U.S."

You nailed that one.

Lets do the humanitarian thing. End the suffering. OBAMA be the humanitarian that you claim to be...RETURN ALL the illegals back to mexico now and make that country very happy.

Mexican suffering be done! Send their illegal invaders home at once!

But here we have THIS story that says according to Mexican Census,
Less are Migrating and More are Returning
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-230291.html

[quote="jamesw62"]Mexico suffers as its citizens leave for U.S.

In the 1970s, the Mexican government took steps to reduce food prices, which caused many farmers to move to urban areas that could not support them, Escobar said.

Then in the 1980s and 1990s the Mexican government decentralized, giving more authority to states and leaving some areas of the country receiving much less in the way of social services than others. Add to that unstable wages, GDP, productivity growth and job market, and moving to the U.S. seems like a pretty good idea for many Mexicans, he said.

Mexicans have “extremely scarce access to social protection,â€

Are Mexicans Leaving the United States and Heading Home?

Written by Joe Wolverton, II
Monday, 07 March 2011 15:21

Over the past five years, the number of Mexican immigrants returning to their homeland has increased substantially over the same period beginning in 2000.

The data was gleaned from statistics released by the Mexican census bureau. The raw numbers indicate that there was a 31.9-percent increase in the number of Mexicans emigrating back to their native country over those who made a similar trek from 2000-2005.

The Instituto Nacional de EstadÃ*stica y GeografÃ*a (INEGI) is the Mexican equivalent of the U.S. Census Bureau, and in a report released on its website, 1.1 million Mexicans reported having left their home country from 2005-2010. Of that number, the data reveal that 351,000 returned to Mexico by the time the national census was conducted in the summer of 2010.

During an interview with CNN, the president of INEGI, Eduardo Sojo, identified two primary factors for the emerging pattern:



The first factor was the situation of the economy in the United States, which decreased the number of [employment] options for migrants. The second factor was the increasing difficulties migrants have when they attempt to cross the border [illegally].



According to Mr. Sojo’s theory, as the American economy began its precipitous decline in 2008, manufacturers were forced to close up shop, thus eliminating many of the employment opportunities available to Mexican laborers who enter the United States (most of whom do so illegally). These workers typically have few marketable skills and find work at factories where their lack of training or education is not an impediment to being hired. Sadly, their immigration status is often not checked, either.


Sojo’s suggestion has support in a report released in 2009 by the Pew Hispanic Center, which noted that the unemployment rate among foreign-born Hispanics rose to 8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008, compared to a much lower rate -— 5.1 percent — during the same quarter in 2007.


The second factor cited by Mr. Sojo is perhaps more important, in light of the violence gripping Mexico’s northern border — violence that very often spills into the sovereign territory of American states along that volatile international boundary.


Mexicans (and those from other countries merely passing through Mexico on their way to United States) are having a much harder time crossing illegally into the United States. For example, along the 262-mile zone known as the Tucson Sector, there are now over 3,000 federal agents patrolling in search of people trying to invade the United States across the southern border.


The success experienced by those thousands of agents is difficult to determine, however, as the numbers are pliable and of little forensic value.


For example, published reports indicate that in the year 2000, border patrol agents arrested 616,000 people attempting to illegally cross into the United States within the Tucson Sector. In 2005, the number of arrests in that zone was down to 439,000. Then, the latest report (from 2010) lists the number of arrests in the same swath at 212,000. This sharp decrease is likely attributable to a slate of applicable factors, one of which is the disincentive to even attempt the crossing in the post-S.B. 1070 world where those suspected of committing this crime will be detained and punished in accordance with the law of the sovereign state of Arizona — a state devastated by the southern invasion.


Another possible reason for the decrease in arrests is the decrease in the pool of those attempting the violation. In an interview with CNN, U.S. Border Patrol agent David Jimarez claims that the lower rate of detainees has to do with an increase in personnel and resources:



'If you go ahead and take a look at a couple of things that have taken place here in the Tucson Sector you’ll notice that there’s been an unprecedented amount of technology, infrastructure, as well as personnel being deployed towards the border. That’s the amount of dedication that’s being given to border enforcement right now.'



Regardless of the popularity of this or that theory, the fact is that the number of people trying to illegally enter the United States across the southern border is at its lowest point in nearly 30 years.


Predictably, there are those who dispute the notion that Mexicans are returning en masse to their native land. The Wall Street Journal quoted an anonymous Mexican diplomat working in Washington as saying, “We believe it is a myth that a lot of Mexicans are going back. But given the economic situation, some of them might be considering it.â€