42% of Mexicans Would Leave Country if They Could; Majority Say to US Mathieu Tourliere - Proceso
go to original June 27, 2013

"If you could go and live outside of Mexico?" 42% of Mexicans answered that they would, which is five points above the figure for 2010. Of these, more than half (59%) would go to the United States. Only 14% would migrate without documents, against 30% in 2010.

This is part of the data provided in the biennial report "Mexico, the Americas and the World, 2012-2013", prepared by the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) and presented today at the Secretariat of Foreign Relations.

The figure represents a "warning signal," said Guadalupe González, a researcher at the academic institution,

According to the report, most Mexicans perceive migration as a phenomenon that is "bad" for families and communities of origin.

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