Seventeen million Mexicans have emigrated from Mexico in 40 years

by
Miroslava Flores
La Voz de Aztlan

Los Angeles, Alta California - August 11, 2003 - (ACN) A prestigious Mexican national advisory board on the census, the "Consejo Nacional de Población", has just released a study that says that 17 million Mexicans have emigrated out of Mexico in 40 years. The study says that the majority of the those emigrating did so to the USA where 9.5 million of these now reside. The study says that if it was not for those emigrating, the total population of Mexico would be 120 million.

The study says that there are now 8.2 million Mexicans who are sons and daughters of these emigrated Mexicans in the USA and that 7.8 million are second generation descendents.

In addition, the study states that the percentage of Mexican families that have relatives in the USA or receive monies from Mexican workers in the USA now exceeds 18% of all Mexican households representing 3.8 million total Mexican households.

Mexico is divided into 2,350 municipalities or "townships" and the study says that 96% of these have some sort of connection with the USA or receive monies from Mexican immigrants in the USA.

The study provided the following breakdown concerning the 2,350 townships and their connection to the USA:

1. 492 townships have a "high" connection
2. 392 townships have a "medium" connection
3. 466 townships have a "low" connection
4. 93 townships have no connection

The study concluded that the "world" received the "New Millennium" with mass global migrations. It stated that in January 1, 2000, approximately 150 million people resided outside their countries of origin.