11% Of Mexicans In US

From Vic Jolly at the Orange County Register:
On the eve of President Barack Obama's visit to Mexico, recast statistics on Mexican immigrants by the Pew Hispanic Center show that nearly 11 percent of the people born in Mexico live in the United States.
The Pew Hispanic Center, a part of the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center, today released a statistical profile showing that Mexicans now account for 32 percent of all immigrants in America and more than one out of 10 of all persons born in Mexico live in the U.S.
A record 12.7 million Mexican immigrants lived in the U.S. in 2008, a 17-fold increase since 1970, according to the center.
Mexicans comprise about six out of 10 or 59 percent of the estimated 11.9 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S., the center says.
"It's important that (immigration) policies recognize the reality which is that there are 13 million Mexicans in the United States and that the two countries are intertwined because of the large numbers of people from Mexico living in the United States," said Jeffrey Passel, a Pew Hispanic Center senior demographer. . . .
The current Mexican share of all foreign born people living in the U.S. at 32 percent is the highest concentration of immigrants to the U.S. from a single country since the late 19th century, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.