Call them migrantes fresas — high-end migrants — a phrase coined by some of the new arrivals and their hosts to separate them from previous waves of immigrants from Mexico. Lured to North Texas by its geographic proximity to their homeland, with some 20 daily flights to Mexico, and by what many call the area’s growing sophistication and quality of life, the transplants represent the latest wave of immigrants helping to transform the region.“A lot of people are coming, but the information is based more on anecdotes than on specific statistics,” said Pia Orrenius, an immigration expert at the...

This is true in both countries. Mexico is just as reluctant as the United States to confront the larger issue of migration — both of its own people north to the United States and along its own southern border, where Central and South Americans want to get into a country that many natives are desperate to flee. Nor does the Mexican elite want to swallow its pride and admit that the real engine behind the Mexican economy isn’t people like them but Mexicans who don’t even live in Mexico anymore — immigrant workers in the United States.In Mexico City,...