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More people are migrating from the United States to Mexico than the other way around.
Business Insider 2019
TejaNext is a free online publication of current issues in cross-border business, migration, and culture. We are also an educational and collaborative platform for Latinx entrepreneurs and anybody interested in sustainable cross-border practices, particularly with trade between the Southwestern United States and our Southern neighbors. This platform publishes practice guides to assist entrepreneurs, artisans, advocates, or investors who operate in the cross-border context and are interested in building a better Hemisphere through fair and sustainable business practices.
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Between 2005 and 2016, foreign direct investment from Mexico into the United States quadrupled to $17 billion.
Andrew Selee, Vanishing Frontiers
About TejaNext
1704 map, drawn by Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri, one of the first representations of the Aztec migration from Aztlan.
The Forgotten Southward Migration
Before the Aztecs built the great city of Tenochtitlan in present-day Mexico City, their ancestors migrated southward from their motherland known as Aztlán. Historians believe that Aztlán was a vast territory that encompassed much of the present day Southern United States and Northern Mexico. The early southbound migration and settlement in the Valley of Mexico resulted in one of the most vibrant cultural and commercial metropolises in the history.
Inspired by the original southward migration, TejaNext Media (formerly called Camino Aztlán) is a Texas-based educational resource that highlights many of the positive developments from Latin America and the United States’ relationship with its southern neighbors, developments that are often overshadowed by negative media coverage of the migration crisis, cartel violence, and poverty. TejaNext is an information highway that connects like-minded entrepreneurs, producers, artisans, impact investors, and advocates on both sides of the border.
Inconvenient Facts
Among many people north of the border, Latin America is broadly generalized as either a story of marginalized people seeking a better life or of foreign invaders intent on threatening the increasingly evasive concept of the American Dream. Regardless of the alternative facts that form your worldview, the current state of Latin America is popularly characterized by violence, unrest, and economic desperation. Despite these widespread conceptions, the reality since the turn of the 21st Century is more complex (and arguably optimistic) than the emotional rhetoric in today’s public discourse. Consider the following facts:
When Presidential Candidate Donald Trump was campaigning that Mexican immigrants were the cause of America’s woes, illegal immigration was at a 10-year low, and had been steadily declining since 2007, the year before the Great Recession.
In the decade since the Great Recession, more Mexicans left the United States than came to the U.S. Mexicans are no longer the majority of undocumented immigrants in the United States, having been surpassed by immigration from Central America and Asia.
There are nearly 1,000,000 U.S. born persons currently living in Mexico (most of whom are undocumented in Mexico). Many are Americans who are increasingly retiring in places like San Miguel de Allende and Lake Chapala.
Between 2005 and 2016, foreign direct investment from Mexico into the United States quadrupled to $17 billion. This figure is greater than foreign direct investment from Israel and the oil-producing Persian Gulf nations combined.
Trade
Commerce among the Americas thrived for thousands of years before the Spaniards arrived and continues to play an essential role for the economies on both sides of the border. This site provides insights about the current state of cross-border trade and discusses possible solutions to the labor and environmental problems associated with globalization.
Travel
TejaNext believes that the movement of people, whether for business, leisure, or permanent relocation, is an essential component of the relationship between the United States and its southern neighbors. Our travel page not only provides recommendations for conscious-minded travelers but also discusses migration patterns such as the increasing relocation from the U.S. to Mexico. The page will also discuss current issues in real-estate investment and transactions in Mexico.
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