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Us Begins Flying Migrants To Guantanamo Bay Mexican Foreign Secretary Juan Ramon de la Fuente speaks during a press conference at the National Palace, in Mexico City, Mexico, January 21, 2025.
The Dallas Morning News reported in September 2023 that a July survey conducted in four Central American countries found that many in those countries had heard misinformation that the United States had an "open border" policy. The executive director of America's Voice, an advocacy group that promotes immigration reform, said human smugglers ...
Mexican citizens represent the largest group of immigrants in the United States illegally, accounting for about 37% of the estimated 11 million in the country without documentation, according to ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico has received non-Mexican migrants from the United States in the past week, and Central American nations could also reach similar agreements with the U.S. to accept ...
Mexican emigrants overwhelmingly go to the United States. According to Pew Research Center, in 2012 over 11.2 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the United States, 52%, or 5.85 million, of whom were Mexican nationals. [1] In another 2012 analysis, Pew estimated that 33.7 million people in the United States were of Mexican origin. [2]
As a response, in 1986 the United States enacted the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). Under this act, all undocumented migrants living in the United States as of January 1, 1982, as well as those who had labored in the seasonal agriculture work for at least ninety days during the previous years were granted legal residence.
Nearly half of the immigrants in the U.S. illegally in 2022 came from Mexico, amounting to 4.8 million of 11 million overall, according to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security report.
The federal government imposed restrictions for immigrant labor as well, requiring firms that supply the government with goods and services refrain from hiring immigrants and, as a result, most larger corporations followed suit, and as a result, many employers fired their Mexican employees and few hired new Mexican workers causing unemployment ...