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RealMainer t1_j63y6ds wrote

> According to PEW research center, 68% of documented immigrants are Asian or Hispanic. If you add undocumented immigrants, that balloons to about 90% Hispanic or Asian (With around 7% being Hispanic), and only around 5% white.

You can't add undocumented immigrants into your stat about documented immigrants and then expect the stat to go up to 90% dummy. That's not how stats work. If the stats on documented immigrants are 68% Hispanic/Asian as you say, then that means the other 32% is something else. After all, it's DOCUMENTED.

Adding the number of undocumented immigrants, which we don't have numbers for because they are UNDOCUMENTED does not change the stats of documented immigrants. Therefore if you say 34% of documented immigrants are Asian and 34% of immigrants are Hispanic, then the remaining 32% are white or black. It evens out quite nicely actually. You can't say the majority of immigrants are brown anymore, can you, because Asian, white and black people are not referred to as brown by anyone except the most ignorant of people.

As far as undocumented, there is no way to know the exact numbers, but it's probably very similar, or if anything more white and Asian immigrants because white and Asian immigrants can get into the country easier via visas and then just never leave, as opposed to people south of the boarder who have to take much riskier chances to get in illegally.

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