Sign of the Times: Illegal Immigrants Moving Back to Mexico To Take Advantage of Mexico's Low 4.9% Unemployment Rate

There's some good news, and some bad news.

There are fewer undocumented immigrants in California – and the Sacramento region – because many are now finding the American dream south of the border.

"It's now easier to buy homes on credit, find a job and access higher education in Mexico," Sacramento's Mexican consul general, Carlos González Gutiérrez, said Wednesday. "We have become a middle-class country."

Mexico's unemployment rate is now 4.9 percent, compared with 9.4 percent joblessness in the United States.

An estimated 300,000 undocumented immigrants have left California since 2008, though the remaining 2.6 million still make up 7 percent of the population and 9 percent of the labor force, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.

We sure spend a lot of time planning how to make the lives better for foreign nationals, don't we? Rather less about American citizens.

posted by Ace at 01:26 PM

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