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...do you mean per capita? because all of latin america has north of 600 million people, versus (at the time of the famine) ireland's ~7 million, so "more" would in strict terms be very unsurprising. Like it would basically be a given that a whole continent contributes far more immigrants than a small country.

Google's automated result on "irish immigration to america during the potato famine" suggests ~1.5 million Irish folks resettled in America during the famine, though the first source I checked[1] claimed ~2M. No automated google result came back for "total latin american immigration to america 2015-2025", but this article[2] claims that the immigrant latin american population was ~2.73M in 2010 and ~3.91M in 2020, an increase of 1.2M people over 12 years. That feels like it could be low, so a second check over on Wikipedia[3] claims that total immigration from "the americas", including Canada, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, etc., totaled ~4.22 M from 2012-2022, the most recently included year. Technically that is more in absolute numbers, if you also stretch the definition of Latin America, I guess?

So, what the heck are you talking about? Can you back those claims up?

1 - https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Folklife-Co...

2 - https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/south-american-immig...

3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_d...




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