Migrants Confront Difficult Conditions on Both Sides of the Mexico-US Border Mathieu Tourliere - Proceso
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Mexican children born in the U.S. and deported join a protest in Mexico City against the practice on Thursday. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Strict immigration laws and the tight labor market in the United States particularly affect the Mexican-born population in that country, so much so that many have to return to Mexico and remain there permanently.

However, once south of the border, they confront many problems in “going forward,” Mexican and U.S. specialists declared today in the report, Binational Dialogue on Mexican Migrants in the United States and Mexico.

According to the report, some 980,000 Mexicans reported having lived in the United States in the 2010 Census. Five years earlier, only 230,000 reported having lived in the U.S.

Mexican emigrants in the United States saw their employment and living conditions improve between 2000 and 2007. The group had the lowest rate of unemployment in the country through 2007, the report highlighted. But they were also the group most debilitated by the financial crisis: since 2008, they’ve had higher rates of unemployment and steeper reductions in pay than those of other population groups.

The population of people born in the United States who immigrated to Mexico was 739,000 in 2010, 77% of whom were minors.

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Translated by Noah Burton

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