There are fewer undocumented immigrants in California – and the Sacramento region – because many are now finding the American dream south of the border.According to the BLS, California's unemployment rate was 11.8% in June.
"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....MORE
Friday, July 29, 2011
"Improving Mexican economy draws undocumented immigrants home from California"
From the Sacramento Bee: