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** Unauthorized Immigration To The United States (STAGGERING NUMBERS) **
Migration Policy Institute ^ | October 2003 | Elizabeth Grieco

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: California; US: New Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: alertbayroid; aliens; bordercontrol; bushamnesty; calihas8mil; homelandsecurity; illegaliens; illegals; immigrantlist; immigration; ins; invasion; lownumbers; mexico; population; sovereignty
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To: Ben Ficklin
In this country, illegals have been illegal as they cross the border. Once they are inside the country, they acheive a defacto legal status

I see, so maybe hanging people who hire illegals could someday become "defacto" legal.

281 posted on 02/23/2005 9:36:09 PM PST by Dan Evans
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To: Missouri

"This doesn't surprise me that corporations could be using contractors who hire illegals since many corporations are a little short of ethics, anyway."

Doesn't surprise me either! :)


282 posted on 02/23/2005 9:37:39 PM PST by EagleMamaMT
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To: JustAnotherSavage
Did you hear about a new "guide for immigrants" by a state in Mexico - not the one from a few weeks ago, this is a new one with a CD with it.

Didn't hear about that one. That "colonia" business reminded me of something Vincente Fox said about how he claimed to be president of the citizens of Mexico, but also president to the 10 million illegals in the US.

After all the howling noises Mexico made about prop 200(?) cutting off aid to illegals, I wonder if they aren't starting to believe they have some say in how we do things here.

283 posted on 02/23/2005 9:48:42 PM PST by Dan Evans
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To: Dan Evans
Some Freepers have suggested shooting them when they come across the border. Is that ballsy enough for you?

I know, they have also been connected with Nazis and Storm Front.

Your "We're scared and leaving California" monger is not based in reality.

284 posted on 02/24/2005 12:23:53 AM PST by PRND21
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To: Dan Evans
One big difference between Mennonites and Mexicans is...

Phttt...nevermind.

285 posted on 02/24/2005 12:27:56 AM PST by PRND21
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To: conshack
I am a big fan of GW, but he is just WRONG on this issue.

As an unpaid volunteer for his reelection, I am disappointed. We need to put our military on the borders and we need to exercise vigorously our right to deport those who abuse our largesse.

But as a realist, I know GW would never have won if he said these things. And I'm pretty sure Bush and his team know it too. This guest worker thing is a band aid, but at least it focuses public attention on the problem.

286 posted on 02/24/2005 12:53:56 AM PST by ARepublicanForAllReasons (Don't worry. My suit is triple-flameproof)
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To: Dan Evans

Dan the Man!

Those crime statistics in Houston are very interesting. Almost 3 x's as high in robberies and car thefts as the national average. Twice as high on pretty well everything else. Very interesting.


287 posted on 02/24/2005 5:31:02 AM PST by ozarkgirl
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To: Dan Evans

Don't bother Bayroud with facts.


288 posted on 02/24/2005 6:53:53 AM PST by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton Jr.)
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To: PRND21
Housing would be a lot cheaper if we could live wherever we wanted. But anti-white violence prevents that.

Perhaps it prevents you, but that's you.

Or you're hiding your head in the sand, or you don't have a wife and kids to worry about.

289 posted on 02/24/2005 8:15:35 AM PST by Rytwyng (we're here, we're Huguenots, get used to us)
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To: Rytwyng

Wrong on all counts.


290 posted on 02/24/2005 10:13:47 AM PST by PRND21
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To: skeeter
"Here's a tougher one - if 66% of the hispanics entering the country (assuming the current rate remains constant) vote for the democratic candidate, how long will it be before the GOP becomes extinct?"

And especially at their current demographic rate of reproduction. You are preachin' to the choir. But the current crop of Republican stratagists seem to think only in terms of the next 4 years.

291 posted on 02/24/2005 10:21:18 AM PST by paleocon patriarch ("Never attribute to a conspiracy that which can be explained by incompetence.")
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To: azhenfud

Actually the fruit picking jobs are legal. There is a guest worker system that allows Mexicans to work in California during the harvest. Then it is round-up time and they are sent home.


292 posted on 02/24/2005 10:29:10 AM PST by Churchillspirit
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To: PRND21
I know, they have also been connected with Nazis and Storm Front. Your "We're scared and leaving California" monger is not based in reality.

I'm still not sure where you stand on the issue. Why don't give us something more than one-liners like "grow a pair"?

Speak your mind, don't be shy.

293 posted on 02/24/2005 12:23:33 PM PST by Dan Evans
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To: Dan Evans
Speak your mind, don't be shy.

I, and others, showed you don't know what you're talking about.

294 posted on 02/24/2005 1:03:47 PM PST by PRND21
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To: PRND21
I, and others, showed you don't know what you're talking about.

No you didn't. I stated my case with facts, statistics and reason. You stated your case with baseless assertions, denial and a picture of a pretty building.

295 posted on 02/24/2005 2:09:13 PM PST by Dan Evans
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To: Dan Evans
I stated my case with facts, statistics and reason.

I live in L.A., there is housing construction everywhere.
Home prices have tripled. And whites aren't moving en mass because they are afraid of "non-whites".

Facts my butt. Re-read your posts.

296 posted on 02/24/2005 2:13:49 PM PST by PRND21
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To: PRND21
I live in L.A., there is housing construction everywhere. Home prices have tripled.

Don't you think those two statements are contradictory? Don't you know anything about economics? If they were building enough homes, home prices would not be so high. Increase supply and the price goes down.

And whites aren't moving en mass because they are afraid of "non-whites".

Then why are they leaving?

"According to a Public Policy Institute of California poll, a nearly 2-to-1 ratio -- 43 to 25 percent -- say the state will be a worse place to live in the next 20 years than it is today."

Maybe people are leaving California for other states because they believe it will be a worse place to live in the future.

297 posted on 02/24/2005 2:33:53 PM PST by Dan Evans
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To: Dan Evans
As I said before. Re-read this thread. You were proven wrong by others.
As for your new nonsense, which state will improve in the next 20 years?

In which part of Los Angeles do you reside?

298 posted on 02/24/2005 2:40:39 PM PST by PRND21
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To: PRND21
In which part of Los Angeles do you reside?

I don't live there anymore.

Where I live now I don't have to talk to the gas station clerk through an inch of bullet-proof glass and I don't have to pay for the gas in advance. I don't see graffiti scrawled over every square inch of concrete. I don't see see twenty foot fences on highway overpasses to keep morons from throwing cinder blocks on the road below. I don't have to pay a toll charge to call a city ten miles away.

I moved because I could, quite literally, see the handwriting on the wall.

300 posted on 02/24/2005 3:09:48 PM PST by Dan Evans
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