page_title: Emigration from Mexico
section_title: Restrictive regulations
hierarchical_section_title: Emigration from Mexico / Effects of governmental policies on Mexican immigration in the U.S. / Restrictive regulations
caption_attribution_description: English: Mexico–United States barrier at the border of Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, USA. The crosses represent migrants who died in the crossing attempt. Some identified, some not. Surveillance tower in the background.
context_page_description: Emigration from Mexico is the movement of people from Mexico to other countries. The top destination by far is the United States, by a factor of over 150 to 1 compared to the second most popular destination, Canada.
context_section_description: The Great Depression in 1929 brought an abrupt end to these allowances that had been made for the benefit of Mexican workers. With the beginning of the Great Depression, the worldwide economic slowdown and the desperate search for jobs within the United States of America, anti-immigration sentiment rose. Thousands of Mexicans were forced back across the border and barriers to future immigrants were constructed.  From 1929 to 1931, legal Mexican immigration entries fell by 95%, and in the next ten years as many as 400,000 Mexican citizens were repatriated.
caption: Mexico–United States barrier at the border of Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, California. The crosses represent migrants who died in the crossing attempt. Some identified, some not. Surveillance tower in the background.
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