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In some communities it can be 50% or more, called Spanglish.
I’ve heard IRL: “Pero, the thing is mi tio da me un present for my quinceañera…”
And my Irish grandfather picked up some vocabulary like “chingadera” and my (not at all Latin) mother used “mintiroso,” “chismoso,” “chones,” etc.
A popular example of Spanglish is Caress Me Down by Sublime. Lyrics are explicit.
my friend's grandpa mixes three chinese dialects with english in a similar way, plus dementia, and nobody ever knows what he is on about.