Mexico & Nafta - August 2012 (ISSN 1741-444X)

A report released in June by the Washington-based Pew Hispanic Center found that Asians have recently surpassed Hispanics as the largest group of new immigrants to the US, a trend it attributes to the “plummeting” decline in migration by Mexican nationals rather than a dramatic rise in recent immigration from Asia, which has been “steady or even up slightly”. The report follows other recent studies which highlight that while Mexican immigration to the US has dropped since 2006 for the first time, there is new evidence suggesting that flows back to Mexico over the same period have grown, leaving the net migration flow at zero.

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