Pedagogia

   Will the net standstill in migration from Mexico continue? We do not know, in part because of uncertainties about economictrends in both nations and future trends in enforcement policies. The decline in Mexican birth rates, however, does appear to be a long-term change that will limit the size of the pool of young people who are the most likely to emigrate.But even if Mexican immigration does begin to rise again, consider how far it has fallen. From 1995 through 2000, we estimatethat 3 million Mexicans moved to the United States, and nearly 700,000, including family members born in the United States, went home. From 2005 through 2010, we estimate that about 1.4 million Mexicans arrived, and the same number, including U.S.-born children, left. Considering everything, a return to the migration levels of the late 1990s now seems inconceivable.