The number of individuals who have migrated from the United States to Mexico has increased, according to data published by the Mexican government.
Americans who migrated south of the U.S.-Mexico border increased roughly twofold between January and April of the years 2023 and 2024, rising from 310 last year to 625 during this year’s first four months. Mexico’s fiscal year runs from January 1 to December 31.
In all those months, the number of male U.S. citizens who migrated to Mexico outnumbered female citizens. So far this current year, 407 males and 218 females have migrated.
Yahoo! Finance published a list of why some Americans are going to Mexico, either temporarily on visas or permanently. They include cheaper rent and property prices, more affordable healthcare, a lower cost of living for individuals and families in terms of internet, utilities and transit, employment opportunities and quicker access to work visas.
A significant number of U.S. citizens, lawmakers and other officials have expressed continuing concern about illegal migration into the United States through the southern border, which recently prompted President Joe Biden to issue an executive order suspending asylum processing for migrants crossing the southern border between ports of entry when numbers exceed 2,500 per day, reopening when daily numbers fall below 1,500.
Numbers, however, have not dissipated since June 4 as the Biden administration likely would have hoped. The number of encounters along the southern border on the three days before the execution action took effect topped 3,500, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection provided to NewsNation.
A migrant walks beside the US-Mexico border wall at Jacumba Hot Springs, California, on June 6, 2024 after arriving with a group earlier in the morning when still dark. Data from the U.S. and Mexico…
A migrant walks beside the US-Mexico border wall at Jacumba Hot Springs, California, on June 6, 2024 after arriving with a group earlier in the morning when still dark. Data from the U.S. and Mexico show an increased number of U.S. citizens migrating south.
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On June 5, border agents apprehended about 4,000 migrants trying to illegally cross into the U.S. The number of daily encounters dipped only slightly over the next three days, while the number of migrants in custody increased.
Questions remain whether the Biden border order will even stand legally, as groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have promised to challenge it on grounds of harming asylum seekers while simultaneously not improving federal immigration protocols via congressional oversight or otherwise.
On June 2, Mexican voters elected 61-year-old ex-climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum in a landslide, making her the country’s first female president. She will succeed incumbent president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of the same left-wing Morena party, who has held the office since 2018.
Questions remain regarding how Sheinbaum will approach immigration due to the country’s diplomatic relationship with the U.S. coupled with overarching issues of mass migration and organized crime syndicates led by violent cartels.
Margath Walker, a professor in the departments of geography and geosciences and urban and public affairs at the University of Louisville, recently told Newsweek that Sheinbaum’s leadership and motives to deter illegal migration will likely depend on what happens in the nation to its north.
“Mexico continues to bow to U.S. pressure both in expected ways like deportations and apprehensions and behind the scenes,” Walker said. “One example of the latter is the busing program that ships migrants away from the border into Mexico and is designed to appease the current administration.
“The other variable is the outcome of the U.S. election. That will certainly impact the discourse and tone of Sheinbaum’s approach.”
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