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MEXICO CITY — Net migration from Mexico, mainly to the United States, plunged by more than 50 percent in late 2008 compared with a year earlier as fewer Mexicans left their country in search of work, the government said Thursday.
Mexican officials attributed the sharp drop to tough economic conditions abroad amid a global crisis causing Mexicans to stay at home, rather than Mexicans in other countries returning to their homeland.
“There is a declining tendency of people going abroad, but we have not detected, up to now, any increase in people returning to the country,” said Eduardo Sojo, president of the National Statistics, Geography and Information Institute.
