When Americans learn that fewer Mexican immigrants are coming to the United States, many assume enhanced border enforcement is paying off. Not so fast. A new study suggests that the lower numbers of migrants have more to do with diminished job opportunities in the United States.

When a team of researchers from the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California San Diego interviewed more than 1,000 people from a small town in the Mexican state of Yucatan, the ...

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