The article you posted is from 2004 and refers to data from "recent years", meaning probably around since the year 2000 or earlier, a timeframe in which Mexican

The article you posted is from 2004 and refers to data from "recent years", meaning probably around since the year 2000 or earlier, a timeframe in which Mexican immigration was at or near its peak. Stats from 2009 have nothing to do with it. Also, try to be civil in responses, attitude is not needed, especially when I am struggling to see how my post had any preconceived notions. I asked a question and made a guess as to what the answer was, and you're acting as I was somehow stating my guess as a fact or that it was somehow inappropriately biased. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html