Princeton Study Finds Immigration Has Reached Net Zero

Published December 11, 2016

June 02, 2010: A fence separates the cities of Nogales, Arizona (L) and Nogales, Sonora Mexico, a frequent crossing point for people entering the United States illegally in Nogales, Arizona. (2010 Getty Images)

Is the Immigration debate cooling down?

LatinoVoices is reporting that as the immigration debate heats up in the Republican campaign, a Princeton professor argues that immigration rates are actually cooling down. Way down.

Despite all indications that illegal immigration is not the problem it once was, GOP candidates carry on with the politically amenable "more border enforcement" mantra, while remaining vague on the harder question: What do we do with the 11.2 million undocumented immigrants already here?

But Doug Massey, head of the Princeton's Mexican Migration Project, says that for the first time in decades, Latino migration has actually reached a net zero.

“For the first time in 60 years, the net traffic has gone to zero and is probably a little bit negative,” he said in an interview with The New York Times.