Amid Major Transformation in Migration Flows between U.S. and Mexico over Past Decade, New MPI and El Colegio de México Report Sketches Road Map for New Binational Policy Approach

WASHINGTON – The U.S.-Mexico migration corridor, which is the world’s largest, has undergone a vast and often under-appreciated transformation in the past decade. Illegal immigration of Mexicans has declined sharply. Most Mexicans moving to the United States now do so legally and with higher human capital than in the past. And an increasing number of Americans live south of the border, even as the Mexican population in the United States declines.