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More Mexicans are leaving the US than coming across the border

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageOn the US-Mexican border.Mike Blake/REUTERS

During the most recent Republican debate, Donald Trump declared “people are pouring across the southern border.”

Trump is right that the United States has been a major immigrant destination since the 1960s, but if he is referring to Mexican flows today, he is wrong.

According to sociologists...

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