Population unknown, but estimated at 1.5% (whether partial or full blooded)[citation needed]
Regions with significant populations
Mexico City, Chiapas, Morelia, San Luis Potosí, Puebla, Guadalajara, Baja California, Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Michoacán, Veracruz, Saltillo, Monterrey, Guerrero, and Colima
Asian Mexicans (Spanish: mexicano asiático, orientales, hindues, indies) are Mexicans of Asian ancestry. However, the type of Asians described in this page are those of East Asian and South Asian descent (from the Far East & the Indian subcontinent, respectively). In Mexico, peoples from Far East/the Orient are known as Orientals. Also, Asian Indians are known as Hindus, despite the fact that not all Indians are Hindu (they are called this so as not to - confuse them with American Indians, who are called indios, or Indian).[citation needed]
Many Mexicans of Asian descent have been discriminated against during the 1930s & 1940s, when anti-Chinese and anti-Japanese sentiment was high.[citation needed] In the 1930s, many Mexicans of Chinese descent (whether partial or full) were forcibly deported out of the country during the presidency of Mexican president Plutarco Elías Calles.[citation needed] In the 1940s, just like in the U.S., many Japanese Mexicans (along with Mexicans of Italian and German ancestry) were forced out of Baja California[citation needed] and the coast of western Mexico and put in Mexico City and Guadalajara, since at the time, World War II was going on and the Japanese were judged as enemies since Mexico was an Allied power and Japan was an Axis power. The looming presence of U.S. influence was another factor that drove the decision to remove Japanese Mexicans (since the U.S. did the same). After the war, Mexico accepted refugees from Japan, and many Japanese stayed in Mexico City and Guadalajara. To this day, there are thousands of immigrants from East Asia, and few from South Asia.[citation needed] Many Chinese and South Asian immigrants arrive illegally in Mexico, some use Mexico as an entry point to the United States, but most stay in Mexico.[citation needed]
Luis Nishizawa
