Posted on 02/22/2005 5:05:20 PM PST by F16Fighter
The size of the undocumented immigrant population in the United States is probably about 9 million people.
A report released by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in January 2003 estimated the size of the undocumented immigrant population at 7.0 million in 2000. A separate analysis by Jeff Passel of the Urban Institute estimated there were 8.5 million undocumented immigrants in 2000. Passel and others believe that net illegal immigration from Mexico alone has been growing at a rate of 500,000 people annually, which places current estimates at a minimum of 9.0 million unauthorized immigrants.
In the 1990s, the undocumented immigrant population grew by 350,000 per year. According to the INS, from 1990 to 1999, the size of the undocumented immigrant population grew by about 350,000 people per year on average, and by as much as 500,000 people per year in the latter third of the decade.
The states with the largest unauthorized populations are California and Texas. INS estimates show the states that had the largest unauthorized immigrant populations in 2000 were California (2.2 million) and Texas (1.0 million), followed by New York (0.5 million), Illinois (0.4 million), and Florida (0.3 million). Texas became the second state after California to have over one million unauthorized residents.
Almost one-third of all undocumented immigrants live in California. According to the INS, of all undocumented immigrants in the United States in 2000, 32 percent lived in California, followed by Texas (15 percent), New York (7 percent), Illinois (6 percent), and Florida (5 percent). Combined, these five states accounted for 64 percent of all undocumented migrants.
The states with the largest numerical increases in their unauthorized populations in the 1990s were California, Texas, and Illinois, in that order.
INS data show that the states with the largest numerical increases in their unauthorized populations between 1990 and 2000 were California, Texas, Illinois, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, and New York, in that order. Each of these states had increases of morethan 100,000 in the number of unauthorized residents between 1990 and 2000.
Georgia, North Carolina, and Colorado experienced rapid growth in their unauthorized immigrant populations between 1990 and 2000. Between 1990 and 2000, the unauthorized immigrant populations of several states grew rapidly, according to the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, including:
Georgia 571 percent (from 34,000 to 228,000)
North Carolina: 692 percent (from 26,000 to 206,000)
Colorado 365 percent (from 31,000 to 144,000)
Seven states that had 10,000 or fewer unauthorized immigrants in 1990 also experienced rapid growth through the decade:
Arkansas 440 percent (from 5,000 to 27,000)
South Carolina 414 percent (from 7,000 to 36,000)
Tennessee 411 percent (from 9,000 to 46,000)
Alabama 380 percent (from 5,000 to 24,000)
Iowa 380 percent (from 5,000 to 24,000)
Wisconsin 310 percent (from 10,000 to 41,000)
Nebraska 300 percent (from 6,000 to 24,000)
There is no evidence to suggest that this pattern has changed since 2000. The five countries of origin with the largest unauthorized immigrant populations are Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, and Honduras.
In 2000, the largest source country for unauthorized immigrants was Mexico (4.8 million), according to the INS. The unauthorized resident population from Mexico increased by 140 percent, from about 2.0 million in 1990 to 4.8 million in 2000, according to the INS. Unauthorized immigrants from Mexico represented 69 percent of the total unauthorized resident population in 2000. In 1990, unauthorized immigrants from Mexico represented 58 percent of the total.
Six other source countries were estimated to have over 100,000 unauthorized immigrants resident in the United States, including El Salvador (189,000), Guatemala (144,000), Colombia (141,000), Honduras (138,000), China (115,000), and Ecuador (108,000). There is no evidence to suggest that this pattern has changed since 2000.
This information was compiled by Elizabeth Grieco, MPI’s Data Manager, in October 2003. For questions or to arrange an interview with a data expert or policy analyst, please contact Colleen Coffey at 202-266-1910 or ccoffey@migrationpolicy.org. Please visit us at www.migrationpolicy.org.
Welcome back, Elmer.
There's an aspect to the illegal invasion that nobody ever talks about. The government printing presses have been running to the point that the politicians are getting carpal tunnel syndrome from pushing the button and yet "inflation" remains allegedly low. How is that? Well, if the politicians can mask the true cost of hotels, meat packing, construction, etc. with illegal labor, and the true cost of producing a Mr. Coffee machine (the true cost being defined as the cheapest Americans could produce the same device) is obscured by Chinese imports, the fraud that "inflation" is "low" can be maintained. If a $125,000 house suddenly cost $250,000 and that Mr. Coffee machine suddenly cost $70 instead of $35 and the reason was the politicians have been stealing the value of your money by way of printing press excesses, you wouldn't be a happy camper now, would you?
So don't expect the illegal invasion to stop any time soon.
Why is that not fair?
I may be grasping at straws because anything else is insanity.
I agree, the illegals ARE the growth in both instances.
That, I understand. "Indigent care" should NOT be used to treat illegals - period. And NO policy should penalize the insured/paying patient for their choices to treat illegals under that guise.
Uh maybe becuase of years of a democrat party controlled California Legislature.
How could President Bush have seen these numbers and not been alarmed?
All he's interested in is his legacy of "I love Hispanics" and to let Carl Rove count some percentage of them on the voter rolls...just like Democrats do...
to force wages down to improve corporate bottom lines...
and to have Vincente Fox at the ranch and both croon " My $50,000 boots is purdier than your $50,000 boots"
Call me a Bush basher.... not true...but the truth will out and GWB is as bad as Clinton in NOT taking care of business when it comes to illegals and jeapordizing the nation he is sworn to protect and whose LAWS HE US SWORN TO UPHOLD...and invasion of the US is ILLEGAL !!!
Lotsa possibilities pardner...
The is NO good reason for the President to ignore the staggering numbers of people STILL invading the sovereign border of the U.S.
NONE WHATSOVER. - F16 Fighter
Hear Hear!
The truth and nothing but the truth and deserves to be shouted from every rooftop
Do you imply that the illegals ARE THE ONLY or ARE THE MAJOR source of growth in both instances.
Oh, the major source of growth.
And who put them there? Not your typical taxpaying Republican. They were elected by people who get trucked from polling place to polling place.
If your state become infested with a third world population, it will suffer from third world politicians.
What? Do you think that high home prices are a good thing? Home prices are high because corrupt California politicians are making it impossible to build homes. You know, supply, demand.
The rate of home ownership in California is about the lowest in the country.
Anabaptists can do anything that Mexican illegals can do. Except maybe all those things that Mexican street gangs are doing. They can't compete with them.
You would have to show me some stats to support that. Those stats that I have looked at don't support that.
According to Wikipedia, there are 1.3 million wordwide and 60% of them are african, asian, and hispanic.
Oh Thank You RINOs, Rove and King Bush for your patronage to the big business while you spit on hard working, law abiding Americans. Your elitism is beyond compare and we, the feeble minded robots, believe that you really care about values, homeland security and economic progress - NOT!
I am a conservative - Bush is not a conservative - he spends our money like theres no tomorrow, could care less about homeland security and is a proponent of limiting our rights. The GOP better give us something better in 2008 or Hitlery will be ordained.
Yep! The media just can't wrap their fingers around that phrase, can they?
Guess I'm a little late to the party. I was reading a Terri Schiavo thread last night, and had to go lay down.
Can't wait to hear all the intelligent responses to this excellent article.
Well, we don't need to import them. We have about 180 thousand of them here. They speak English, and if they can buy more land their numbers will increase to the point where where our population will be stable without immigration.
We are not Europe, and we are not a South American country. We have plenty of fundamentalist Christians who are willing to do hard work. We don't "need" illegal aliens any more than we need heroin or cocaine. There may be a lot of people willing to pay for illegal commodities but that does not mean we "need" them.
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