Impacts on Donor Country (Mexico)

• Less pressure on resources (healthcare, education)
• Less pressure on jobs, lower unemployment.
• Birth rate is lower.
• Money is sent back to families in Mexico, boosting Mexican economy.
• Migrants return with new skills/qualification.
• It is the actively working/most qualified/skilled labour who leave, causing a "brain drain".
• Families are divided
• Remaining family members become dependant on money sent back to Mexico.
• Mainly young people that leave, leaving many elderly alone