Mexico's Birthrate plummets: fewer illegal immigrants

Why are there fewer illegal immigrants these days from Mexico?  The following chart of Mexico's birthrate over the last four decades shows a huge drop from 6.8 to 2 per mexican woman.  This translates into 200, 000 fewer job seekers per year.

By DAMIEN CAVE

Published: July 6, 2011

In simple terms, Mexican families are smaller than they had once been. The pool of likely migrants is shrinking. Despite the dominance of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico, birth control efforts have pushed down the fertility rate to about 2 children per woman from 6.8 in 1970, according to government figures. So while Mexico added about one million new potential job seekers annually in the 1990s, since 2007 that figure has fallen to an average of 800,000, according to government birth records. By 2030, it is expected to drop to 300,000.

source:  The New York Times