Excuse me, I read that wrong, I thought MENA meant "Middle East" and "North America," which would include Latinos. 100% there are many millions of Hispanics who are basically Spanish descendants. I realize now MENA means "North Africa," which would meant the tweet is also wrong - the White stat includes Hispanics of which there are many Hispanics descended from Spanish European.
As for Whites from the Middle East, they exist, but probably less than 5% of the total pop of the ME. Many of the Whites from the ME, which are almost always Christian, have migrated to America or Europe in the past century.
So even if we take out MENA from the census, it's still going to be around 70% White is my guess. MENA Whites are too small a sample to make a big impact on the census. If the argument is that we have too many Spanish Hispanics, then of course there's no argument they have dominated immigration for the past 50 years. But still it makes little sense to call many of them non-White.
A better argument than splitting hairs over what "White" is, is just to say there's been too much immigration.
As for Whites from the Middle East, they exist, but probably less than 5% of the total pop of the ME. Many of the Whites from the ME, which are almost always Christian, have migrated to America or Europe in the past century.
So even if we take out MENA from the census, it's still going to be around 70% White is my guess. MENA Whites are too small a sample to make a big impact on the census. If the argument is that we have too many Spanish Hispanics, then of course there's no argument they have dominated immigration for the past 50 years. But still it makes little sense to call many of them non-White.
A better argument than splitting hairs over what "White" is, is just to say there's been too much immigration.