A new study has revealed that there are more Mexicans leaving the U.S. than entering.
The Pew Research Center analyzed data from the governments of Mexico and the U.S., which show that the flow of Mexican immigrants has been reduced since the 1990s.
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More than one million Mexicans, together with their families and U.S.-born children, have left the U.S. between 2009 and 2014, based on the 2014 Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics (ENADID), according to the Pew Research Center. On the other hand, the U.S. census data reveals that only 870,000 Mexicans moved from Mexico to the U.S.
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The study found that the main reason for Mexicans going back to their home country is to reunite with their relatives. Mark Hugo Lopez, director of Hispanic research at Pew, said that the immigration from south to north is "at an end."
"This is something that we've seen coming," Lopez said, according to Fox News. "It's been almost 10 years that migration from Mexico has really slowed down."
The border issue is a major concern that Republican candidates raise during campaigns with plans to put up walls and enact stricter border measures. However, the stricter implementation of border measures during the Obama administration has already helped in diminishing illegal crossings to the U.S.
"We know that crossings are definitely down and we also know it is much more difficult and costly to cross now than it used to be," Pew research author Ana Gonzalez-Barrera said, according to The New York Times.
"We think Mexican migration is definitely in a new phase, and it will not return to the levels it once had," she added.
