In a surprising turnaround, illegal Mexican immigrants are leaving the US and (supposedly) returning home to México. Makes sense really, with the economic hardship up north, there are fewer and fewer jobs for those who risk their lives to cross the border in order to work and send dollars back home.
In 2007, some 7 million illegal Mexican immigrants were in the US. (Wonder where that number comes from? If authorities can count them, can’t they deport them? Not that I personally believe that is the proper thing to do.) In 2011, the number slid to 6.1 million.
You can read the entire story at the NY Times:
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