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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/w...-new-land-of-opportunity-is-mexico.html?_r=1&
If you know anything about Mexico and Mexicans, this really isn't surprising.
If you don't and if you don't want to know, then you can never understand.
Nonetheless, you might be interested in the comments at the bottom from Americans who have moved to Mexico.
Mexico, whose economic woes have pushed millions of people north, is increasingly becoming an immigrant destination. The country’s documented foreign-born population nearly doubled between 2000 and 2010, and officials now say the pace is accelerating as broad changes in the global economy create new dynamics of migration. ....
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.
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If you know anything about Mexico and Mexicans, this really isn't surprising.
If you don't and if you don't want to know, then you can never understand.
Nonetheless, you might be interested in the comments at the bottom from Americans who have moved to Mexico.