More Americans flee to Mexico than Mexicans coming to America

[nynco]

You know our country is flushing down the toilet when Americans are fleeing to Mexico to find a way to make a living. Highlight I loved from this article.

"The shift with Mexico’s northern neighbor is especially stark. Americans now make up more than three-quarters of Mexico’s roughly one million documented foreigners, up from around two-thirds in 2000, leading to a historic milestone: more Americans have been added to the population of Mexico over the past few years than Mexicans have been added to the population of the United States, according to government data in both nations.
Mexican migration to the United States has reached an equilibrium, with about as many Mexicans moving north from 2005 to 2010 as those returning south. The number of Americans legally living and working in Mexico grew to more than 70,000 in 2012 from 60,000 in 2009, a number that does not include many students and retirees, those on tourist visas or the roughly 350,000 American children who have arrived since 2005 with their Mexican parents."


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/world/americas/for-migrants-new-land-of-opportunity-is-mexico.html?_r=0

[merl]

Thats got to be legal migration.

[crays]

Americans now make up more than three-quarters of Mexico’s roughly one million documented foreigners, up from around two-thirds in 2000, leading to a historic milestone: more Americans have been added to the population of Mexico over the past few years than Mexicans have been added to the population of the United States, according to government data in both nations.
Mexican migration to the United States has reached an equilibrium, with about as many Mexicans moving north from 2005 to 2010 as those returning south. The number of Americans legally living and working in Mexico grew to more than 70,000 in 2012 from 60,000 in 2009, a number that does not include many students and retirees, those on tourist visas or the roughly 350,000 American children who have arrived since 2005 with their Mexican parents."


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/world/americas/for-migrants-new-land-of-opportunity-is-mexico.html?_r=0

Nice comparison of Americans to Mexicans. Notice the difference? No reference to legal, documented, etc. in the descrip of the Mexicans in America, only to Americans in Mexico. Are we to infer that all those Mexicans in America are "documented foreigners...legally living and working in..." America? Thank you, liberal media.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Border jumpers excluded

[crays]

Thats got to be legal migration.

Snuck in before me while I was "speed editing". LOL

[Bailey Guns]

Big deal. My understanding of the article is they're referring to legal immigrants. Personally, I don't know anyone in the US who is anti-legal immigrant.

[crays]

Border jumpers excluded

I don't see them being excluded from much around here.

[Bailey Guns]

Everyone kinda jumped on that all at once with the same interpretation.

[crays]

I'll stop now. Thanks for putting up with me.

[nynco]

I am not making any sort of legal vs illegal point about anything. I think illegal immigration is a problem because of the distortions it brings to the labor market.

I think there is something here to look at regardless of legal or illegal. Its very scary to me that our country has reached that level where MEXICO... the crap hole that it is, is offering more economic prosperity for some Americans.