Further the 179 million figure someone pulled out of their ass would only be true if the entire populations of all those countries up and came here - all of them.
That's just absurd
Numbers were wrong no question.
The number I use most of the time is that if we have 7 billion people in the world and half want to come here who do we let in? That’s the overriding concept of the topic.
Well, Central America is a region, like the Middle East, but is not its own continent. Central America is a part of North America, like Canada, the US and Mexico.
I don’t count Mexico as part of Central America, but some folks do.
I’m just saying that IF someone does, it’s not a number that is far off.
It’s not absurd, it’s just a different definition that you don’t agree with.
From Wikipedia (not a political entry, so valid):
“Central America” may mean different things to various people, based upon different contexts:
—The United Nations geoscheme for the Americas defines the region as all states of mainland North America south of the United States and specifically includes all of Mexico.[4]
—Middle America is usually thought to comprise Mexico to the north of the 7 states of Central America as well as Colombia and Venezuela to the south. Usually, the whole of the Caribbean to the northeast, and sometimes the Guyanas, are also included.
—According to one source, the term “Central America” was used as a synonym for “Middle America” at least as recently as 1962.[5]
—In Ibero-America (Latin America and Iberia), the Americas is considered a single continent, and Central America is considered a subcontinent separate from North America comprising the seven countries south of Mexico and north of Colombia.[6]
—Mexico, in whole or in part, is sometimes included by British people.[7][8][9]
—For the people living in the five countries formerly part of the Federal Republic of Central America there is a distinction between the Spanish language terms “América Central” and “Centroamérica”. While both can be translated into English as “Central America”, “América Central” is generally used to refer to the geographical area of the seven countries between Mexico and Colombia, while “Centroamérica” is used when referring to the former members of the Federation emphasizing the shared culture and history of the region.
—In Portuguese as a rule and occasionally in Spanish and other languages, the entirety of the Antilles is often included in the definition of Central America (the Portuguese Wikipedia article for the Antilles offers, in fact, América Central Insular as an alternative name), which is its own region to be distinguished from North America and South America alike. Indeed, the Dominican Republic is a full member of the Central American Integration System.