It also refers to Asians from Latin America that speak the Spanish or Portuguese natively and immigrated to the United States.
This includes Hispanic and Latino Americans who identify themselves (or were officially classified by the United States Census Bureau, Office of Management and Budget and other U.S. government agencies) as Asian Americans.
The distinction made by government agencies for those within the population of any official race category, including "Asian American", is between those who report Hispanic and Latino ethnic backgrounds and all others who do not.
[5] In the 2010 Census, there were 598,146 Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans, including those who are multiracial in origin.
[7][8] The Philippines was once the destination of immigration from Latin America to Asia back in the era of the Manila-Acapulco Galleons.