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.
What's all the hysteria about?
I don't think that's all there is to this.
The base of the Republican Party is being split in half now, and it's going to be a lot more pronounced by 2008.
Ideas:
Venezuela, who is our third largest supplier ,is presently bargaining with China for most of the oil allotments normally reserved for the United States.
Canada, who is our largest supplier ,is leaning in the same direction.
The House of Saud is teetering, and Saudi Arabia, who is our second largest supplier, could possibly shut off supplies to all infidel countries.
Mexico is presently only our fourth largest supplier, but they sit on billions of barrels of undeveloped resources offshore.
By opening up exploration and development to American companies, they would be the beneficiary of an economic boom, and, at the same time, provide a stable oil supply to the United States.
I am not justifying the rape of our country for oil.
I'm simply saying that there is more to this invasion than meets the eye.
You obviously don't live in California.
Did anyone else hear about a web site where you can report illegal immigrants? Anyone know what it is?
What kind of business are you in?
Save a step: Deter-Dispose.
I'm beginning to think that this statement should read, "Almost one-third of California's population are illegal immigrants."
I spend my work life bouncing from construction site to construction site. I am taken aback when I hear English spoken by someone other than the boss. The graffiti in the porta-johns usually sounds like MECHA or La Raza propaganda. These people may work hard but they do not want to assimilate at all. I'd say that most have nothing but contempt for this country and a desire to bilk us for all they can.
The jobs that "Americans just won't take" are jobs that Americans can't take because wages have been suppressed by illegals living 6 to a room. I wonder how long it will be until my job becomes a job that "Americans just won't take"?
I believe these statistices to be low. There was an article posted here a while back that stated that there were 850K illegals alone who graduated from high school last year.
I don't know why so many people are leaving California. I thought I saw somewhere that your economy is booming. I know your crime is down. Shipping companies are relocating to Houston because your ports are too crowded and you have a labor shortage.
As for hospitals closing on the border, on a couple threads in the past about hospitals closing it was brought out that new hospitals had opened in the area. The new hospital gets the patients who can afford to pay for the new equipment or who have good insurance. The better doctors are attracted to the newer hospitals. The old hospitals are left with the people who don't have insurance or can't afford the more expensive services.
It's not that the hospitals close because they have too many illegals, it's because they don't have enough rich folk.
This is one sure way to weaken this country and have the terrorists infiltrate the US.
Undocumented immigrants!!!
^^^
I am so sick of that PC term.
They are illegal aliens -- lawbreakers. Deport them all.
I'm with you - can't stand that PC term either. At CPAC last Saturday a panelist said illegal aliens are more like "burglars"... criminals breaking into your house. He got LOTS of applause for his comments.
Our local hospital just implemented a policy that requires even the insured patient put down $250 before treatment. You know why? Too many indigent and illegal, uninsured hitting the hospital up without paying and so EVERYONE must bear their costs.
But you know what? If I had to use their services, I wouldn't pay it. Know why? Guess how many illegals have to put it up? Guess how much of the hospital's operating budget is for "indigent" care? Now guess exactly who pays THAT bill? IMO, I've already paid it once.
So you're OK with crime as long as its profitable?
--Boot Hill
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