Mexico to USA migration
- Created by: Revisiola
- Created on: 11-05-16 13:39
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- Mexico
- Pull factors
- better medical facilities : 400 per doctors
- well paid jobs - GNP: $24,750
- literacy rate : 99%
- life expectancy : 76 years
- low paid jobs available
- Sueno Americano -American Dream
- Push factors
- Poor medical facilities
- 1800 per doctor
- low paid jobs
- GNP $ 3,750
- literacy rate : 55%
- life expectancy :72 years
- 40% unemployment
- high crime rate
- Poor medical facilities
- Impacts
- On Mexico
- shortage of economically active people in the countryside
- many men migrate leaving women
- trouble finding partners
- young people migrate , leaving young and old
- villages such as Santa Ines have lost 2/3 of its inhabitants
- On the USA
- Costs the USA millions of dollars for border patrols and prisons
- Drain on the USA economy
- Migrant workers keep wages low
- Problems in cities due to cultural and racial issues
- Mexicans benefit the US economy through working for low wages
- Enrich the US with food, language and music
- Incidents of TB has been increasing greatly due to increased migration
- On Mexico
- 2000 km boreder
- 1 M Mexicans migrate every year
- Illegal migration is a problem
- 850,000 were caught in 1995
- Pull factors
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