Figure 4 Net Migration From Mexico Below Zero After the Great Recession In thousands U.S to Mexico 2,940 Note: Estimates are for February:1995 through February:2000. June 2005 through June 2010 and August.0009 through August 2014 Migration from the U.S to Mexico includes persons bornin
Fewer Mexicans are migrating to the U.S. today than in the past. In fact, more Mexicans left than came to the U.S since the end of the Great Recession. Between 2009 and 2014, 870,000 Mexican nationals left Mexico to come to the U.S., down from the 2.9 million who left Mexico for the U.S. between 1995 and 2000. Of those moving back to Mexico, many cite family as the reason for their return. About 1 million Mexican immigrants and their U.S.-born children moved from the U.S. to Mexico between 2009 and 2014, and 61% said they had done so to reunite with family or to start a family, according to the 2014 Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics.
Figure 4  | Net Migration From Mexico Below Zero  | After the Great Recession  | In thousands  | U.S to Mexico  | Mexico to U.S.  | 2,940  | 1.390 1.370  | 1,000  | 870  | 670  | 1995 to 2000  | 2005 to 2010  | 2009 to 2014  | Note: Estimates are for February:1995 through February:2000.  | June 2005 through June 2010 and August.0009 through August  | 2014 Migration from the U.S to Mexico includes persons bornin  | Mexico the U.S and elsewhere; Mexico to U.S includes Mexican-  | born persons only  | Source: 1995-2000 and 2005-2010: Passel, Cohn and Gonza lez-  | Barrera (2012); 2009: 2014 U.S. to Mexico: Pew Resea rchCenter  | estimates from population household and migantmicrodata  | samples of 2014 ENADID; Mexico to U.S based on Pew Research  | Center estimates from ugmented March suppl ementto the 2014  | Current Population Surveyand augmented 2012 American  | Community Survey; see Methodologyfor further detail.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 