Mexico+Immigration+Policy

Mexico Immigration Policy Factsheet ** GOVERNMENT OF **** MEXICO ** Mexico is a Republic with Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches ** DEMOGRAPHICS OF **** MEXICO ** **__ Population __** -2006est. 107,784,179   **__ GDP __**** (PJPP)  **  2005 estimate - Total $ 1.073 trillion (13th) -Per capita $10,186 ** Immigrant Groups in **** Mexico **** : ** Spaniards(unmixed): 9 million Americans: 1 million Arabs: 400,000 Argentines: 150,000 Jews: 50,000 Mexico represents the largest source of immigration to the United States. Of the 32.5 million foreign born covered in the March 2002 CPS, 9.8 million or 30 percent were from Mexico. The United States can anticipate the entry of another 14 million immigrants between 2000 and 2010 with net migration of at least 400,000 Mexicans per year. About 5.3 million undocumented immigrants from Mexico are living in the United States. Mexican immigrants account for about one-fifth of the legal immigrants living in the United States. This large percentage is actually a legacy of the legalization programs of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (TRCA), under which about two million formerly undocumented Mexicans acquired legal status. Mexico is also the single largest source of undocumented immigrants. There were an estimated 9.3 million undocumented immigrants in the United States as of March 2002. Of these, about 5.3 million or 57 percent were from Mexico. ** MEXICO **** 'S IMMIGRATION POLICY. **  Mexico has extremely strict __immigration law__ for both legal and illegal immigrants. Certain legal rights are waived in the case of foreigners, such as the right to a deportation hearing or other legal motions. In cases of flagrante delicto, such as a person declaring they entered the country illegally, any citzen may make a citzen's arrest on the offender and his accomplices, turning them over without delay to the nearest authorities. Only Mexicans by birth or naturalization and Mexican companies have the right to acquire ownership of lands, waters, and their appurtenances, or to obtain concessions for the exploitation of mines or of waters. __[11.__ Mexicans have priority over foreigners under equality of circumstances for all classes of concessions and for all employment, positions, or commissions of the Government in which the status of citizenship is not indispensable. Foreigners can serve in the military only during wartime __[2].__
 * President: ** Vicente Fox Quesada
 * MEXICAN IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES **