Southern Surge: More Americans are moving from the U.S. to Mexico than the other way around

Washington Post reports: American citizens who are drawn to Mexico’s warm weather as a remote-work or retirement destination, or who are moving to Mexico along with their returning, undocumented parents. Mexico’s statistics institute estimated that the U.S.-born population in Mexico had reached 799,0000, quadruple 1990. U.S. Embassy in Mexico City estimates 1.5 million, and having tangible impacts in Mexico. Post: American immigrants are “pouring money into local economies, renovating historic homes and changing the dynamics of Mexican classrooms." Marcelo Ebrar, Mexico’s foreign minister: “It’s beginning to become a very important cultural phenomenon, like the Mexican community in the USA.”