AC - USA

• 59 million into US between 1965-2015

  51% Latin American

  25% Asian
• 2009-2015 Obama's administration deported 2.5million Mexicans
• Migrants move to find work abroad - most 20-24

  Children of immigrants seen as natives

  Older people less likely to migrate and emigrate home to original country

  Laws and presidential action from concerns eg. Refugees, unauthorised immigration and terrorism
• Immigration and Naturalisation Act (INA)

  -Worldwide limit of 675,000 permanent immigrants

  -Lawful permanent residency to apply for nearly all jobs

  -US admits no citizens on temporary basis
• American Immigration Council

  -Reunification of families

  -Giving immigrants valuable skills

  -Protecting refugees, promoting refugees
• 2014 - 11.7 million Mexicans in the USA - 28% / 1/5 of all foreign born people
• 2008 - More returned than left
• Green card = relative of US citizens
• People coming from Mexico may be less educated, limited English, lower income, higher poverty
• 37% in California, 21% in Texas, 6% in Illinois
• ECONOMIC

  -Low paying jobs (Higher than Mexico) US doesn't want to fill

  -Remittances instead of in US job market

  -Skilled workers leave Mexico

  -Mexico loses farmers

  -Labour flows to high productivity areas

  -Wage boost for natives
• SOCIAL

  -Can't speak English to closed communities - tension between can cause: segregation, crime and violence

  -Low income can lead to crime - drug trafficking concerns

  -Culture into US - food, music, Spanish in school

  -Birth rate in Mexico reduces taxes on elderly