4 facts about the mexican immigrants in 1980s

During the 1980s, 8 million immigrants came from Latin America, a number nearly equal to the total figure of European immigrants who came to the United States from 1900 to 1910, when European immigration was at a high point.Mexican immigrants and their descendants could be found in most of the industries of the Southwest, including ranching and mining.The number of unauthorized immigrants from Mexico has also been on the decline, although Mexicans still make up the majority of the unauthorized population. Mexicans accounted for 51 percent of the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in 2018, according to estimates from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI).Mexicans in the United States are more likely than other immigrant populations to be long-time U.S. residents, with nearly 60 percent having arrived more than 20 years ago. However, given that a relatively high proportion are unauthorized, Mexican immigrants overall are less likely to be naturalized U.S. citizens than other groups. They are also more likely to live in poverty and less likely to have health insurance than the overall immigrant population.