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MEXICO CITY — Mexican emigration has dropped 42 percent over the past two years, a government study released Thursday showed, confirming that America has become less appealing amid an economic downturn and stepped-up raids against illegal migrants.
About eight of every 1,000 Mexicans emigrated between February and May of this year, according to the survey conducted by the National Statistics and Geography Institute. That’s a 42 percent drop from the same period in 2006.
In all of 2007, an estimated 814,000 Mexicans emigrated, compared with 1.2 million in 2006.
The figure, reached through household surveys, includes all Mexicans who left the country.
