Sixty percent of the Mexican people are mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish), 30% are Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian, 9% are white and 1% are other. The percentage with Indian heritage is even higher among the people of Guatemala and Honduras. (Source: CIA – The World Factbook)
If 90% of Mexicans have American Indian origins, then, of course, 90% of Mexican-Americans also have some American Indian origins. It follows then that instead of 4 million American Indians and Alaska natives in the U.S. (as identified in the 2000 Census), there are easily more than 30 million persons with some American Indian ancestry.
So, all together now, who are the immigrants?