The following part analyses migratory trends from Mexico to the US.

Mexico and the US share

the same border, which provides good condition for people in Mexico to travel over territories to
America. Over the second half of the twentieth century, the majority of low-skilled migrants in the US
has come from middle-income countries, one of which is Mexico. Due to the gap in aggregate
development levels and opportunity, as well as the geographical position and the historical unbalanced
power relations with the US, Mexico has become one of the countries which provide cheap migrant
labor for the US.

According to Hein de Haas and Simona Vezzoli in Journal of Ethnic and

Migration Studies (2013), since the late 1800s, Mexican migration into the US can
be divided into five major periods. In the first phase, Mexican immigrate to America
for infrastructure works. In the second period, a larger number of labors immigrate
to the US after World War I due to the mass deportation of Mexican workers as a
consequence of the Great Depression. The next phase started when the the Bracero
temporary workers program in 1942 is introduced. By 1942, the US economy have a
strong demand for labor and this program was created to meet the requirement. By
1960-64, the program was being phased out which marked the start of the fourth
phase which had an increase in undocumented migration (Durand et al. 2001). This
period lasted from 1965 to the mid-1980s. The last phase started in the mid-1989s.
In this phase, the border between Mexico and US has been strictly controlled, which
encouraged more permanent settlement and family reunification of Mexican.
Since the economic crisis in 2008, Mexican migration to the US has declined
sharply. in 2012, net migration came down to zero. More recently, the number of
Mexican immigrate to the US has decreased due to strict rule of the US President
Donald Trump. The Mexican migrant population has remained relatively unchanged
at around 12 million.
 This analysis showed that, besides the reason of finding better opportunities in a more
developed countries, the immigration from the south to the north, to a lesser extent, from Mexico to
the US has largely been a function of economic fluctuations and policy trends in the
US and in Mexico.