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.
WAY over the top, bayourod. You don't even know me...
You really should take the time to study birth rates. Maybe even read Death Of the West.
Then please tell us all what your picture would prove instead of just implying that all of us know what it would show and that we would all share your interpretation of its meaning.
And perhaps you could stand a few more semesters studying ethics. You have condoned crime based on economics and convenience.
--Boot Hill
No, that was a lengthy report prepared for the California legislature by its own Legislative Analysis Office. It's the legislative branches official forecast that it has to base budgeting on.
Why don't you give up trying to convince everyone that we are suffering. We aren't, we've never been better off. The sky is not falling.
Hey, Missouri! Good to "see" you tonight! I've been "fluing" for the last week or so so I've been laying low.
Yep - that's the mantra of all these "our economy is going to die without illegals" whiners - privatize the profits, socialize the costs.
You know, I live in a part of the country where illegals haven't infiltrated yet. White and black American citizens - and LEGAL immigrants - clean the hotels, work in the hospitals and nursing homes as aides, cook and wait on tables in the restaurants, install plumbing and electricity, build houses, roads and bridges and work in factories (what few are still left around here and haven't been relocated to China). Now, how is it possible that we are still chugging along just fine without a bunch of illegal aliens to hold our hands and take care of us? I sure am having trouble understanding how American citizens can be so helpless in other parts of the country when we can manage just fine without breaking the law? Sure makes me scratch my head and go "hmmm"! :)
I didn't read anything in that report justifying an improving economy. They were just bouncing off the walls about whether they were going to raise taxes or cut spending.
We aren't, we've never been better off.
Then why are the taxpayers leaving California? It isn't because they are reading my posts.
Things were warm and cozy on the Titanic for about half an hour after they struck that iceberg, but they all knew that was going to change.
Are you suggesting that you have the power to get someone banned for reposting your quotes wherein you condoned crime, based on economics and convenience? If you find your own quotes so reprehensible, I suggest you retract them. Other than that, you can plan on seeing them used regularly to discredit your position.
--Boot Hill
Bush and the Republicans need a wake up call from their supporters,CLOSE THE BORDERS!!!If this continues illegals will control our elections and republicans will be a thing of the past,not to mention the dangers of the open borders
to ourselves and our children.
Does the word "illegal" mean anything to you?
Violent crime has also been decreasing.
You're linking what you call "a decrease in violent crime" with illegal immigration? LMAO!
The Anabaptists have about 9 children per family. If we give them room to expand, we will have enough of them to steadly replenish our population
Think of it as a form of internal immigration. They will grow crops and farm animals and make Amish babies. They do house framing. And Amish girls will do house cleaning. In other words they can replace illegals.
And they are good people too. Their crime rate approaches zero. They don't want to carve their own huge barrio out of the Southwestern states and eject the Gringos. Amish and Hutterites don't clutter up the jails and prisons and their youth gangs don't use firepower any more potent than a paintball gun.
Can they cut up chickens or lay asphalt in the Arizona sun?
Sure it's a horrible failure on the part of the Feds and GWB. Further, many Americans will be killed following the next terrorist event resulting from this invasion. But the Bush Admin does not concern itself with this invasion. GWB is not going to be knocked to the ground while his wallet is stolen by an "immigrant" from Guadalajara. So, no problem there. GWB is not going to lose his job as a result of our little friend from Guadalajara. Ah, the Republicans are on top of this, to be sure. Don't worry your pretty little self.
When Bucannon called for this he was condemned as a racist isolationist.
He don't employ them, he is employed by them.
Sure, now explain why my grand daughter had a 13 hour wait to get into the emergency room with a broken collar bone, in beautiful downtown Palm Springs, CA
Fair enough, but Bush from day 1 in office, well before the oil prices skyrocketed, pursued exactly same open borders policies that are in place today, not to mention his apparent never ending quest of an amnesty for illegal aliens. That has been the one constant throughout his presidency.
In my opinion, Bush will use whatever excuse he has at his disposal to continue on with his plans for a Mexico-America merger to help along with the the implementation of FTAA. Finally, economic events ebb and flow over time...immigration to a great extent is permanent. That's what separates the issue of immigration from just about every other pressing issue in America. Mistakes made here are extremely difficult to reverse. Unlike Tax policy, spending, trade issues etc.
Santa Ana? That's not fair.
And Los Angeles home values have tripled in five years. Imagine that!
All your Southwest doom and gloom is nonsense unless you're scared of a little rain.
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