SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Real estate agents say more and more Mexicans living in the United States without legal residency are voluntarily returning to Mexico and choosing to rent in Tijuana.
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“I have clients who cannot live in the United States legally so they are emigrating back to Mexico hoping to complete their legal process from here,” said Dulce Belén Reynoso Reyes, president of the Mexican Association of Real Estate Professionals of Tijuana. “They are voluntarily coming to Mexico to regularize their immigration status in the United States — the parents could not gain legal status in the United States, so they prefer to come here on their own avoiding deportation.”
She said the high number of deportations is creating large demand for rental housing, as more and more parents bring their U.S. citizen children to live in cities like Tijuana.
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