More than just Latinos illegally call U.S. home

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Nearly one-quarter are from other nations

Driving around San Diego, an undocumented nanny nervously checks her rear-view mirror, hoping she isn't about to get pulled over. She has no driver's license, but she needs to get to and from work and to shuttle around the children she cares for. So she drives anyway, always looking over her shoulder.

In a Mexican restaurant in San Francisco, an undocumented bartender wonders when he will see his family again. He has made a few visits home in the seven years he's lived here illegally, always managing to sneak back into the country. But security has grown tighter. If there is a family emergency and he has to go home, he's not sure he can return.

Home isn't Mexico, though. The bartender is Irish.

So is the nanny.

They are among the estimated 2.5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States who are not from Latin America but from Asia, Europe, Canada, Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere. They make up nearly a quarter of the nation's undocumented population, yet in the current immigration debate, they have been all but invisible.

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1. You don't hear because they don't have Advocates

Why make noise, when the undocumented Mexicans get their "rights," they get theirs.