mexico to USA

Question 1

medical facilities

Answer 1

1800/doctor)

Question 2

literacy rate

Answer 2

55%)

Question 3

life expectancy

Answer 3

(72 years)

Question 4

unemployment

Answer 4

(40%)

Question 5

poverty

Answer 5

(44.2%)

Question 6

violence

Answer 6

(171 per 100,000 crimes)

Question 7

push factors mexico

Answer 7

• poor medical facilities (1800/doctor)
• low paying jobs
• adult literacy rate (55%)
• life expectancy (72 years)
• unemployment (40%)
• crime and fear factor that come from cartels
• poverty (44.2%)
• inequality (income inequality, homophobia, sexism)
• political instability (unstable government, police brutality)
• violence (171 per 100,000 crimes)

Question 8

pull factors USA

Answer 8

• excellent medical facilities (400/doctor)
• well paying jobs
• adult literacy rate (99%)
• life expectancy (76yrs)
• availability of many low paying jobs.
• chance to start a new life
• economic opportunities
• the American dream → opportunity for prosperity and success, freedom

Question 9

hardships for immigrants

Answer 9

• leaving their family behind
• entering a new country with no money not knowing anyone
• the long journey to USA → train rides, have to jump on moving trains, if you miss a train you have to walk for days
• some women travelling have kids and are pregnant
• risk of violence and kidnappings by drug cartels
• some immigrants will be taken into ICE or denied entrance at the border
• lack of housing
• not properly registered → no school, no legal jobs, no healthcare, no housing
• racism and inequality
• hard to rise up in the American society where there is a big wage gap and discrimination

Question 10

positive impact on USA

Answer 10

-Mexican culture has enriched the US border states with food, language and music

-The migrants take the harder, dirtier, seasonal, more monotonous, more dangerous, less skilled and less well-paid jobs.

-The migrants can accept low wages

-They are willing to work for long hours

-increased population will spend more in local economy.

-Solves the problem of an aging population → immigrants are usually young workers finding a job, the US has an aging population and will lack workers in the longer term, this mitigates the damage.

Question 11

negative impact on USA

Answer 11

• Illegal migration costs the US millions of dollars for border patrol and prisons
• Migrants workers keep wages low which affects American worker
• Problems in cities due to cultural and racial issues

-Services such as hospitals and schools cannot cope with extra numbers

-Mexicans are considered as a drain of wealthy by the US

-Less jobs for the Americans → unemployment is already an issue. In 2019, several large chicken processing plants in Mississippi were raided by the ICE, and 680 undocumented immigrants were arrested. The plants were located in areas of high poverty rates above 20%.

-Crime rate is higher and drugs are being exchanged at the border by members of cartels.

Question 12

positive impact on mexico

Answer 12

• Chance of a job, Better pay than in Mexico

-Can save money and return to improve life in Mexico (6 billion dollars are sent back to mexico every year)

-The remittance send by the migrants will improve their family and standard of living

-There will be less crowdedness and better standards of living, more resources to be shared.

Question 13

negative impact on mexico

Answer 13

-The Mexican country side had a shortage of economically active people

-Young people migrate leaving the old and kids

-Certain villages like Santa Ines have lost 2/3 of its inhabitants

-Brain drain → young and innovative people leave their home towns so there will be less innovation