Improving Mexican economy draws undocumented immigrants home from California

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There are fewer undocumented immigrants in California – and the Sacramento region – because many are now finding the American dream south of the border.

"It's now easier to buy homes on credit, find a job and access higher education in Mexico," Sacramento's Mexican consul general, Carlos González Gutiérrez, said Wednesday. "We have become a middle-class country."

Mexico's unemployment rate is now 4.9 percent, compared with 9.4 percent joblessness in the United States.

An estimated 300,000 undocumented immigrants have left California since 2008, though the remaining 2.6 million still make up 7 percent of the population and 9 percent of the labor force, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.

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Well, there goes the right wing talking point about about anchor babies and illegal alien welfare queens. Really, the thing is: the problem is about EMPLOYERS, not migrants. Illegal immigration to the US declined by 67% over the 2000s, the Washington Post reported in Sept. 2010.