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Originally Posted by ogon_bat
I think you are evading the obvious answer, economic conditions (both in China and Mexico) have improved since 2000 (and worsened in the USA).
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You're right regarding general immigration trends, but this does not explain the scenario that I mentioned. These are people who are already in America, some of whom have gone through the process and established citizenship. They are here because the economic opportunity is better for them here. Even though they could easily spend the rest of their lives here,
they do not want to. Once they decide to retire, or once their children are enrolled in an American university, they're heading home. Economics aren't playing a role in those decisions to leave, because in those cases they're in America for that reason. There are many potential reasons for why they would want to return to their home country, but the point is that the idea that America's lifestyle and/or cultural values are superior to the rest of the world, and that people universally want to emigrate here for them, is false.