Illegal Immigration to United States Helps Mexico Maintain Low Unemployment Michael Carr - Moneynews | |
go to original August 26, 2014 |
As the Mexican dream grows, illegal immigration driven by the 'American dream' has decreased – to net zero. (Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor)
RTTNews Update: The non-seasonally adjusted jobless rate rose to 5.47 percent in July. The latest rate was the highest this year thus far.
Unemployment in Mexico was just 4.9 percent in June, the latest available data. That figure could be significantly higher if the United States enforced its immigration laws.
There are an estimated 11.7 million illegal immigrants in the United States with about 52 percent of that number believed to come from Mexico. An unusually high percentage of the illegal immigrant population is of working age.
The Migration Policy Institute estimates that 80 percent of immigrants were between the ages 18 of 64 while 60 percent of the native-born population is in that age group.
Full deportation, a policy that is impossible, could return 4.9 million working-age adults to Mexico. In June, there were 2.5 million unemployed in Mexico and just fewer than 50 million jobs.
Full deportation could increase Mexico’s unemployment rate to 13 percent.
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