International migration from Mexico to USA

Each year 1 million Mexicans migrate to USA.

• True

• False

Match the following: Push factor (leave Mexico)

• Unemployed

• 40%

• Minimum wage

• 47%

• Adult literacy rate

• 72 years

• Below poverty line

• 55%

• Life expectancy

• $5/day

Answer explanation

A push factor is a factor that causes people to leave their home country or region. Examples of push factors that may cause people to leave Mexico include poverty, violence, lack of economic opportunities, and political instability.

Match the following; Pull factor (Move to USA)

• Adult literacy rate

• 13.5%

• Life expectancy

• 76 years

• Below poverty line

• 99%

• Min wage:

• $7/day

Positive Impacts for Mexico

• Enlarged labour force

• $13 billion/year in total send back to Mexico from family members working in USA as remittances

• More tax paid to government

• When migrants return, they're more skilled & can help develop Mexico economy

Positive Impacts for USA

• Enriched Mexican culture with food,

  language & music & establish a multi-

  cultural society

• Benefit US economy by supplying need of cheap labour working in low paid jobs eg truck drivers

• More tax paid to government

• Enlarged labour force

Negative impacts for USA

• Problems due to cultural & racial issues

• Illegal migration costs USA millions of dollars for border patrols and prisons

• Remittances is the lost from American economy

• Migrant workers keep wages low which affects the wages of American citizens

• Remittances is the lost from American economy

Negative impacts for Mexico

• Young adults tend to migrate, leaving ageing communities behind

• Migration of people reduces workforce in Mexico, which decline economic growth

• Many illegal immigrants died when walking across Arizona Desert

• Many men migrate and leave women behind to raise children or children are grown with the absent of a father

• Enlarged labour force

There is a ​ (a)   border between the USA and Mexico.

• 2000km
• 100km
• 1000000km
• 5837
• 3000km
• 5837km

Number of migrants caught and deported in 1995?

• 50,000

• 850,000

• 350,000

• 650,000

It is estimated that ​ (a)   of foreign-born residents in the USA were Mexican - accounting for more than 10.9 million people 

• 24%
• 54%
• 31%
• 7%