Mexican Migration

Guest: Leo Chavez, PhD, Professor in the University of California Irvine’s School of Social Sciences and Author of “The Latino Threat”  There’s another Republican presidential debate tomorrow and immigration will probably come up. While the focus has shifted to Syrian refugees, it will undoubtedly circle back to Mexico before the race is over. We may yet hear renewed talk of mass deportation and building a wall on the US border. But new analysis by the Pew Research Center finds that since the recession, more Mexicans have left the US than have come here. The tide seems to have reversed.