Going the other way. . . a reduction in Mexican illegal aliens.

I know the press likes to use other terms, like undocumented, but those other terms have a propagandistic element to it that we try to eschew.  So we'll call Mexicans illegally in the country what they are, illegal aliens.  That's not a moral judgment of any kind.

And the story that's in the news, although deep in the news, is that from the first time since 1965 Mexican illegal aliens are less than half of the illegal aliens in the country.

Now some of that is simply statistical.  They could be left than half of the illegal aliens in the country simply because there are now more illegal aliens from somewhere else. 

But at any rate, it's now the case that 47% of the illegal aliens in the country are from Mexico.

That's big percentage, to be sure, and that means as an overall percentage of the illegal population, they're still the largest demographic.  But the store doesn't end there.

The number of illegal aliens from Mexico has declined by 2,000,000 people in recent years. 

I.e., 2,000,000 Mexicans who came into the country illegally, have gone home. 

And that's a real trend.

It's been ongoing for some time, and indeed it stretches back to some time that's at least as far back as President Obama's presidency.  Which also tells us something.

And that is, is that average Mexican's fortunes have been improving in Mexico. 

The majority of Mexicans, as we've reported before are in the Middle Class. That basically makes Mexico a first world nation.  Sure, it's not Canada, but then, neither is Greece, or Romania, or Portugal. 

Mexico is really coming along, and that's a really good thing.

At the same time, it's facing an immigration crisis of its own, something that's easy to forget in the U.S. The recent flood of immigrants coming across the border from Mexico into the US aren't Mexicans, they're Central Americans.  And before they're a burden on the U.S., they're a burden on Mexico. 

All things worth remembering over a weekend in which we're closing out the story of the Mexican Border War.  The Mexican Revolution started what was the first real waive of Mexican refugees into the United States. When Mexico somewhat stabilized, which wasn't until the 1920s, that slowed down, but it picked back up again during World War Two when immigration policies were changed to encourage Mexican labor to come into the United States.  It slowed again after the war, but with the changes to immigration in the 1970s it rocketed up, just as the economic disparity between the U.S., even in that inflationary era, and a third world Mexico became too great to ignore.

And now it's back down, and we have a first world southern neighbor.