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The world remains focused on events in, say, Syria and Europe.<\/p>\n

However, get a load of this item: More Mexican citizens returned to their home country over a five-year period than came into the United States.<\/p>\n

The Pew Research Center said that from 2009 to 2014, more than 1 million Mexicans returned home while 870,000 of them came to the United States.<\/p>\n

Does that change the debate in this country? Quite possibly.<\/p>\n

Presidential candidates — particularly some of them on the Republican side — have made immigration a theme of the upcoming White House campaign.<\/p>\n

I’m not at all sure what the trend suggests. Pew is a reliable research outfit, with findings that are well-documented.\u00a0One theory being kicked around\u00a0is that the Great Recession of 2008-09 in the United States removed an incentive for Mexican citizens to come to the United States in search of jobs.<\/p>\n

The inflow of migrants could increase as the U.S. economy continues to improve, according to Mark Hugo Lopez, a Hispanic researcher for Pew. According to USA Today, “In coming years, he said,\u00a0the number of Mexicans may increase again if the U.S. economy continues to\u00a0improve. But steady growth of\u00a0Mexico’s economy and tighter controls\u00a0along the southwest border mean\u00a0the United\u00a0States won’t see another massive wave of legal and illegal immigration like it did in recent decades, when the number of Mexican-born immigrants\u00a0ballooned from 3 million to nearly 13 million, he said.”<\/p>\n

Lopez added<\/a>\u00a0that the era of Mexican migration might be at an end.<\/p>\n

So, while our attention is diverted to places far away, we see some interesting trends right at our doorstep.<\/p>\n

Don’t look for critics of U.S. immigration policy to proclaim this as good news. Indeed, if foreign nationals anywhere in the world can find\u00a0prosperity at home<\/em>, well, that reduces the strain on the Land of Opportunity.<\/p>\n

I consider that to be good news.<\/p>\n

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