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United States President Donald Trump went on a mini tweet-storm Monday evening complaining that "caravans" of immigrants are heading for America, Sputnik reported.
As the Los Angeles Times reported last fall, "According to census numbers from the US and Mexico, since 2005 Mexican nationals have begun to leave the US in greater numbers than at any point in history."
The LA Times also noted that "the largest share of those who return to Mexico are immigrants who had been in the country illegally."
Trump's promise to deport people and potentially split up families in part has driven the emigration, but the trend started before the new administration even began. As the Washington-based Pew Research Center reported in November 2015, when President Barack Obama was in office, "more Mexican immigrants have returned to Mexico than have migrated here since the end of the Great Recession."