Norteamerica
Volume 12, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 197-212

Realidad frente a hechos alternativos: La migración irregular hacia Estados Unidos y las deportaciones de población mexicana durante la administración de Trump [Reality in the Face of Alternative Facts: Irregular Migration to the United States and the Deportations of Mexicans under the Trump Administration] (Article) (Open Access)

Peña J.*
  • a Investigador del Departamento de Estudios de Población, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico

Abstract

This article analyzes five ideas about Mexican migration toward the United States that drive Trump's immigration policy and contrasts them with official data from the Survey on Migration on the Northern Border. The author concludes that 1) the data do not justify the content of Trump's executive orders; 2) Trump's executive orders make sense as population control strategies to inhibit the growth of Mexican population in the United States; and, 3) Mexico's main challenge is not the number of deportations, but the diversity of deportees' needs.

Author Keywords

Mexican migration Deportations Immigration policy Donald Trump

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85038388929&doi=10.20999%2f%2fnam.2017.b008&partnerID=40&md5=3a0836ff34ebceb976b79eeaa8f57999
DOI: 10.20999//nam.2017.b008
ISSN: 18703550
Original Language: Spanish