Statistics show that over 6,000 Chinese poured into Mexico in the years 1919 through 1921 and Chinese economic power remained strong in cities and towns throughout northern Mexico up until the worldwide depression beginning in 1929 when Mexican unemployment rates soared, rioting became widespread, and Chinese exclusionary activities resumed more cruelly and thoroughly than ever before.
根據統計，一九一九年至二一年間，短短三年，共計六千多名華人湧入墨西哥；在墨北許多城鎮中，華人仍然經濟力量雄厚。直到一九二九年，世界經濟大蕭條開始，墨國失業人數暴增、社會騷亂，排華運動於是重又興起，而且比以前更嚴苛、更徹底。