Mexican economy’s woes don’t push people north, study indicates

“The U.S. economy seems to be a more important “pull” for immigrants to come to the United States legally and illegally than the Mexican economy is a “push.”

Researchers at the Pew Hispanic Center crunched immigration numbers and unemployment numbers for the past 12 years and found that immigration grew sharply during the rapid U.S. economic and job expansion of the 1990s and then declined as the economy went into a downturn after 2001.”

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