they are not all mexican . they are s. american
>From: Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net>
>Sent: Apr 2, 2006 3:59 PM
>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Friam <friam at redfish.com>
>Subject: [FRIAM] The immigration debate - 10% ??
>
>Dede and I were just wondering -- just how massive IS the immigration
>from mexico?
>
>The current guess at the number of undocumented mexicans in the
>country is between 11 and 13 million (I've heard as high as 15, but
>the politicos are tossing 11-13 around).
>
>The current (2005 census) population of mexico is 106 million.
>
>So if you add back the 11 or 13 then figure out how much that amount
>is of the total population, you come up with roughly 10% (13M:
>10.92%, 11M: 9.40%, 15M: 12.39%) of mexico has decided to pick up and
>leave, and in a very stressful way.
>
>TEN PERCENT!? What in the heck is going wrong in mexico to cause
>that massive an exodus? I don't think we've seen that sort of
>migration even during WWII!
>
>I don't want to be simplistic or alarmist, this is a very subtle
>issue and needs to be solved gracefully. But I was really surprised
>to see that large a number of people leaving their homes.
>
> -- Owen
>
>Owen Densmore
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