It's Not Just Poor and Uneducated Mexicans Who Move to the United States Tim Johnson - McClatchyDC
go to original August 17, 2015

Mexico has long had a problem retaining skilled teachers who seek employment in other countries offering incentives. Despite increased spending by Mexican employers to keep academics from looking elsewhere, many professors still see opportunities across the border as a better bet. (CCTV America)

Thousands of Mexicans with doctorates have left their homeland, mostly for the United States, in a brain drain that saps Mexican academia of super-hot minds.

Some of them sought jobs in Mexico and couldn’t find them, securing slots instead on the faculties of U.S. universities. Others long to return. Still others did come back, only to get fed up with bureaucracy or disgusted by crime and return to the United States, where academia and industry recognize talent without regard to citizenship.

It’s the flip side of presidential candidate Trump’s calls for higher border walls to keep Mexican immigrants out. Highly skilled Mexicans also travel north and are met with open arms. By one estimate, 11,000 Mexicans with doctoral degrees reside and work in the United States. Another estimate says 27 percent of all Mexicans who hold such degrees work north of the border.

The United States reaps clear benefit from such an exodus.

“Americans are free riders in terms of Mexican brains,” said Mauricio Tenorio Trillo, a Mexican historian at the University of Chicago who got his master’s and doctorate at Stanford University in California.

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