Remember, Illegal Immigration Is Not Only About Latin America
This is obvious, but I thought I'd spell it out anyway.
And, to make things easier, here's a fresh news story about another kind of illegal immigrant to the U.S.: those coming from Asia. Their profile and visibilty are lower than those of people from Mexico and Latin America, but they do exist. Here are a few numbers from the news story (I have not yet cross-checked the numbers or found independent confirmation):
Of the 11.1 million who are in the country illegally, 13 percent are Asian and 78 percent Latino, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. While Mexican protesters at the May 1 marches proudly wore T-shirts and held signs that defiantly proclaimed they were in the United States illegally, most undocumented Asians choose to remain invisible, even within their own ethnic communities. Roughly 10 percent of America's Asian population is here illegally, experts say. In the Bay Area, as many as 180,000 Asians are undocumented, estimates the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco. |
There is some evidence that the conditions of illegal immigration for many Asians is somewhat or very different from those of Latinos/Mexicans. Even so, I feel I should also say: My opinion towards illegal immigration does NOT change when the illegals are from Asia.
I've posted previously on the ongoing immigration mess here: