http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_immigration_to_Mexico#Anti_Chinese_movement

No, I did not come across this with a random wiki article. Not long ago I saw a book (a political novel to be exact) titled Genocidio (Genocide) wrote by José Luis Trueba Lara, a mexican journalist, writer, teacher and universitary researcher, which was published the last year. Decades ago he also published another book on the same subject; Chinos y antichinos en México (Chinese and Antichinese in Mexico). There's also multiple blogs scattered across the Internet talking about this subject.

The most interesting thing is that this is not even slightly mentioned in mexican history books!

In my eyes, official mexican history books issued for educational purposes are starting to lose the credibility I thought they had.

Cool that you found this, I had no idea. But why were Chinese immigrants coming to Mexico? I know why they came to the US, but why to Mexico?

The article mentioned some of them being kicked out of the USA and coming here.

That makes sense but what about the others?

The government (beloved Dictator Porfirio Díaz) needed workers to construct railroads among other things.

I see.