{"id":46453,"date":"2012-04-24T09:37:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=46453"},"modified":"2012-04-24T09:37:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T14:37:22","slug":"changing-mexico-u-s-immigration-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/04\/24\/changing-mexico-u-s-immigration-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Mexico-U.S. Immigration Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pew Hispanic Center has released a new report on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewhispanic.org\/files\/2012\/04\/PHC-04-23a-Mexican-Migration.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">trends in migration from Mexico<\/a>. For the first time in 40 years, immigration from Mexico has slowed:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/Screen-shot-2012-04-24-at-7.08.54-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46454\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/Screen-shot-2012-04-24-at-7.08.54-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a notable change, as Mexican immigration has been the single largest immigrant flow to the U.S. form a single country, in overall numbers (though in the late 1800s, German and Irish immigrants made up a larger percent of all immigrants annually than Mexicans make up today).\u00a0The report attributes this change to a range of factors, from changing economic conditions in Mexico, the recession&#8217;s effects on the U.S. economy, border enforcement, and the dangers of border crossings.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, we may now be seeing more people moving from the U.S. to Mexico than vice versa:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/Screen-shot-2012-04-24-at-7.16.54-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46455\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/Screen-shot-2012-04-24-at-7.16.54-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"472\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The change is due primarily to a drop in undocumented immigration, which peaked around 2007 and has dropped off significantly since:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/Screen-shot-2012-04-24-at-7.20.39-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46456\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/Screen-shot-2012-04-24-at-7.20.39-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot more information available on changes in border enforcement and socio-economic changes in Mexico, so check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewhispanic.org\/files\/2012\/04\/PHC-04-23a-Mexican-Migration.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">full report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pew Hispanic Center has released a new report on trends in migration from Mexico. For the first time in 40 years, immigration from Mexico has slowed: This is a notable change, as Mexican immigration has been the single largest immigrant flow to the U.S. form a single country, in overall numbers (though in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[135,2125,1824,285,1754],"class_list":["post-46453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-demography","tag-immigrationcitizenship","tag-nation-mexico","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-latinos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46458,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46453\/revisions\/46458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}