** Unauthorized Immigration To The United States (STAGGERING NUMBERS) **

Migration Policy Institute ^ | October 2003 | Elizabeth Grieco

[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.

[PRND21]

I don't live there anymore.

Duh. Why else would you claim no houses are being built, the economy is drowning, and whites are scared.
If you have a problem with illegal immigration, fine. But your depiction of Los Angeles is false.

[Dan Evans]

your depiction of Los Angeles is false.

You ask me for sources, but you provide no evidence to back up your claims.

If it were true that others on this thread have "proved me false", you would have cited those posts. If it were true that my depiction of Los Angeles is false, then you would cite specific counter-examples.

But you don't.

[PRND21]

You're a mess. It's all in the thread.

P.S. If you would have waited to leave with your tail between your legs you would have made a mint, Mr. "anti-white violence".

[Dan Evans]

P.S. If you would have waited to leave with your tail between your legs you would have made a mint, Mr. "anti-white violence".

First of all, I didn't use that term. Read the thread. Post 166.

Made a mint? From what? Making crooked deals with the government. Like the billions that Grey Davis and his cronies made from squeezing the utility industry, or maybe from selling meth to illegals who then go off to kill people? ...Castro was driving a Ford F-150 pickup in a westbound lane of J Street around 8:30 a.m. when he crossed into the eastbound lane at Twin Oaks Avenue, drove up onto the sidewalk and struck Koehler before crashing into a fence, police said...The prosecutor said blood tests showed that Castro was under the influence of methamphetamine....

Castro, from Mexico, was in the United States illegally at the time of the crash, Wyatt said. He had been deported last year and banned from re-entering the United States for five years but returned anyway

[PRND21]

First of all, I didn't use that term.

That was a mis-quote on my part. My apologies.
As for the rest...we disagree.

[k2blader]

I couldn't help myself... ;-)

[Types_with_Fist]

The is NO good reason for the President to ignore the staggering numbers of people STILL invading the sovereign border of the U.S.

That’s quite correct. The word one might be searching for is “complicit.”