Final-Fan said:
Lawlight said:
Does your article factor in illegal immigration? It requires a subscription and all that I can is just immigration, not illegal immigration.
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Sorry, I was able to see it without a subscription for some reason. (I went back to the site and now I'm blocked like you were. Interesting.) Basically illegal immigration from Mexico to the US is actually smaller in the last year or two than illegal immigration from the US to Mexico (mostly of people who came here illegally in the first place). Apparently they want to be with their families or some stupid thing like that.
Here's a different website talking about what looks like the same data at a glance.
"The decline in the number of Mexican immigrants residing in the U.S. has been mostly due to a drop of more than 1 million unauthorized immigrants from Mexico from a peak of 6.9 million in 2007 to an estimated 5.6 million in 2014"
There are still illegal immigrants coming in, of course, but not as many. And many are leaving.
And it's also true that the Great Recession probably was a factor in declining illegal immigration, and now that we seem to be recovering, it may start to pick up again. But the WSJ article (the blocked one) also mentioned improvements in Mexico that may keep people there (or not push them away).
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This research by Pew says the number is at 11.3M as of 2013:
http://www.pewhispanic.org/files/2014/09/2014-09-03_Unauthorized-Final.pdf
