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ms626 · 4002 days ago · link · · parent · post: The US has one of the largest income inequality gaps in the developed world, does not care
How bad do things have to get here before people stop coming do you suppose? Here's an interesting article about the slowing of Mexican immigration:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/us/mexican-immigration-to-... From the article....
"The report presents a striking change from earlier findings by the Pew Hispanic Center on the number of Mexicans who have been returning to their country. While earlier Pew studies said the data did not show any exodus, the report published Monday includes new data from the 2010 Mexican census revealing that about twice as many Mexicans returned home from 2005 to 2010 than in the previous five years. In all, about 1.4 million people moved from the United States to Mexico in that time, the Mexican census showed"