Fewer Mexicans Head to United States as Home Exerts More Pull Sara Murray - WSJ.com
go to original June 21, 2013

ATLIXCO, Mexico - With the U.S. Senate locked in debate over an immigration overhaul, a crucial question is whether new laws and a recovering U.S. economy will draw a new flood of Mexican immigrants.

... Critics warn that a bill now before the Senate, which proposes opening a pathway to citizenship for many who now are in the country illegally, would again make the U.S. a magnet for more illegal immigrants.

But experts from both sides of the border are skeptical that the U.S. will see an upsurge in immigration from Mexico, citing a strengthening Mexican economy, increases in border security that have made crossing costlier and more dangerous, and demographic changes in Mexico, such as a falling fertility rate.

More than 700,000 Mexicans came to the U.S. in 2000 alone, a peak in immigration flows. But immigration slowed to a trickle between 2005 and 2010, according to the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center, so much so that the number of Mexicans returning to their home country offset the number coming to the U.S.

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