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Zakaria: Are Mexicans giving up on U.S? Editor's Note: Tune in Sunday at 10a.m. or 1p.m. ET for Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN. By Fareed Zakaria, CNN This past week, the Supreme Court deliberated over a controversial Arizona immigration law. It comes amidst a climate of hostility. Just look at what candidates said during the Republican primaries: "Mitt Romney will complete construction of a high-tech fence," the candidate announced on his campaign website. Michele Bachmann promised to "build a double-walled fence." And Herman Cain said: "We're going to have a fence; it's going to be 20 feet high; it's going to have barbed wire on the top." The fence in question guards a third of America's 2,000 mile-long border with Mexico. Supporters of harsher laws argue that 3 out of every 5 illegal immigrants are from Mexico. But just as American hostility is reaching a crescendo, the problem might be disappearing. I was struck by a Pew report I saw this week. It says a historic pattern of migration has been reversed. Comparing two recent five-year blocks, the report finds that not only has the number of Mexicans immigrating to the U.S. declined by 50 percent (from 3 million to about 1.4 million), the number of Mexicans going the other way back home has doubled. Seven hundred thousand Mexicans in the U.S. moved back between 1995 and 2000. But that number increased to 1.4 million between 2005 and 2010. The decline in illegal immigrants is no surprise. Even President Obama has spent more on immigration enforcement than his predecessor. What is surprising however, is the drop in net legal migration. This has several explanations. The U.S. economy is weaker. On the other hand, Mexico's economy is strengthening. Its GDP per capita is 15,000 dollars - about a third that of America's. Some of Mexico's competitiveness is due to NAFTA - the North American Free Trade Agreement. Because it avoids U.S. tariffs, its exports work out to be cheaper than China's. Last year, Mexico did 400 billion dollars worth of business with the U.S. That's more than Argentina and Brazil combined. But whatever the set of reasons behind the Pew findings, immigration is always determined by both pull-and-push - the need to leave a place is as crucial as the lure of a new destination. So, are we losing our allure? If that's the case, that's not good news. The U.S. has always benefitted from being demographically dynamic. A major advantage we have over Japan, Europe, and even China is that our population will continue to expand. And it's been expanding with young people who are hard-working and full of drive and pay lots of taxes. Look at the data: The median age in the U.S. was about 37 years in 2010. China's was lower at 34 years. But come 2050, that dynamic will be reversed, thanks to decades of Beijing's one-child policy and American immigration. The median age here will be 40 but in China it will hit nearly 49 years. An aging country creates a deficit of workers and a surplus of retirees who spend. Our demographic advantage holds true against a number of countries. We're projected to be better off demographically than France, the UK, Korea, Spain, and, of course, Japan. This demographic advantage is entirely due to immigration. The United States has a fertility rate not so different from European countries, so our population gains (and these are gains in young people) come entirely from immigration. The Pew Study shows we've clamped down on illegal immigration. But it also shows that Mexicans don't want to come here as much legally as they did before. So it is actually a mixed picture. In trying to one-up each other on building bigger and higher fences, demonizing illegals, and hoping that they self-deport, we seem to have forgotten that it is the spirit of acceptance and hospitality that has made America so attractive to legal immigrants for centuries. Let's hope we can stay that way. Tune in Sunday at 10a.m. or 1p.m. ET for Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN. http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/27/zakaria-are-mexicans-giving-up-on-u-s/?iref=allsearch
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Bullshit
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keep building that wall, if there isn't enough money there is china to ask them for a loan
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They're all leaving because they dont have a reason to be here anymore we save up all our money build our houses and go back we dont wanna be harrased by the american government and all the people who discriminate us they call us dumb mexicans but we save up all our money send it over there to build houses and help our familys over there then when we save enough just take all our things and leave because we dont need all this discrimination and abuse nope.....
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just wait a little longer and americans will start going south.
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Well fuck it's too late now they already spread their beans all over the place and are sprouting new dumb, fat people everywhere you turn..the best we can do now is educate them and get them a gym membership.
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Of course that's what they're gonna say. I'm not saying that they're lying but its obvious that they're trying hard not to offend even when telling facts. When they say '5% rise', a common man wouldn't know how much difference that makes. What they didn't tell is the fact that even 2nd generation Muslims have 1-2 kids more than native French and for Muslim immigrants, its 3-4 kids.
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Dirty pests will always find their way into the Eagle's Talons.
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"France’s National Institute of Demographic Studies, has done some detailed research and concluded that France’s immigrant population is responsible for only 5 percent of the rise in the birthrate and that France’s population would be rising anyway even without the immigrant population." --You sir, are wrong.
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French system is a success? Where the hell did you read that?!! Do you know how much more higher is the birth rate of the 5% French Muslims compared to the rest in the country? Its a very similar story as that of US except that these people are immigrants from North Africa and they're Sunni Muslims, which means their conservative culture always conflicts with the liberal Europeans I expect more 'Islam vs West' tensions in France in the years to come. Be happy you guys don't have that problem
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The birth rate of Mexicans have been falling and will continually fall. I've read studies that suggest their numbers will fall below the birth rate of whites by 2050, so no. Education, industrialism, family planning and media deeply effects numbers and Mexico is actually made huge strides. Eventually America will subsidies childcare like France...whom has succeeded in increasing their birth rate to replacement levels.
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Now in 2013 NET ZERO immagration to the US. Go Fuck yourself US.
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Mexicans work in low level service jobs. It's hardly a brain drain. If a Chinese immigrates here he probably has a masters or higher. The Mexican immigrant probably didn't even graduate high school.
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atleast I don't have to hear about people bitching about mexicans taking you're supposed job.
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US without Mexicans will be failing like Europe, I don't think many Americans understand that. Its these immigrants from developing countries, most of them Mexicans of course, who are willing to work for very low wages, expect very little welfare and boost the economy. It is why US is still growing at about 2.5%, unlike 0% in Europe. Not only that, Hispanic women have high birth rates, White women have too few kids who are certainly not enough to sustain the US economy.
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they got there wish thats all they care about
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your mom is a whore
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You are dumbas!!!..... Now 90% People Mexican Speaks English ... And now Americans Not understand Spanish Jajajajajajjajajajjaajajjaa
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[Well Thats A Shot To The Ego Of Usamericans. How Does It Feell To Be In Such A Bad Economy Even Mexicans Are Leaving?] [The Europeans Named The New World [AMERICA] In (1507)] [Citizens From (The United Mexican States Commonly Known As Mexico) Are (Americans)]
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Hahaha.Normally I mind my own business but,learn how to spell before you tell someone to learn English,YOU PIECE OF SHIT!
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Now it is time to take our land back,Teh-has, Cahlifornia and Nueh-vo Meh-eeco
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