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California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey and Illinois together held the largest shares of the U.S. unauthorized (undocumented) population in recent estimates, accounting for roughly half to mo...
Recent 2025 estimates consistently place at the top for numbers of undocumented immigrants, with a commonly cited ranking listing California first (about ), followed by Texas and Florida, then New Jer...
No single, authoritative tally exists for how many people were living in the United States without legal status on December 31, 2025; independent researchers and advocacy groups produce divergent esti...
Undocumented immigrants pay substantial taxes and provide major labor-market contributions: several analyses estimate they paid roughly $96–97 billion in federal, state and local taxes in 2022, and ot...
Available federal and independent reporting shows that only a minority of undocumented (commonly termed “illegal”) immigrants have criminal convictions: counts of people in ICE detention indicate roug...
There is no single, authoritative breakdown of the racial or ethnic composition of the U.S. undocumented/unauthorized population in the search results provided; major estimates of total unauthorized p...
President Biden did not “let in 15 million undocumented immigrants” as a discrete, one-time action; reputable estimates put the U.S. , and researchers warn that attributing that total to a single pres...
Recent data and analyses show that visa overstays have been a persistent and significant component of the unauthorized population, and several pre-2025 studies concluded overstays exceeded illegal bor...
Estimates suggest a relatively small minority of the U.S. unauthorized/undocumented population was born in Europe — on the order of a few hundred thousand people — but precise counts vary by data sour...
President Trump announced a plan to direct a new U.S. census to exclude people without legal status from the population totals used for apportionment, a proposal that contradicts longstanding practice...
As of 2025, estimates of the United States’ undocumented immigrant population vary across reputable analyses, with ; no single authoritative count for 2025 is settled in the available data. The Social...
Estimates of how many unauthorized immigrants “entered” the U.S. during Donald Trump’s first term (2017–2020) are not directly reported in the supplied sources; available reporting focuses on the size...
There is no single, uncontested tally of how many people “came into” the United States illegally during the Biden administration because agencies and analysts report different metrics (encounters, got...
The best available reporting and state-level estimates point to Texas and Florida as the states that experienced the largest increases in unauthorized (undocumented) immigrant populations in the recen...
Government data and independent reporting show millions of “encounters” at the Southwest border during the Biden presidency, but those encounter totals are not the same as a count of unique people who...
In recent years official and academic sources show visa overstays have contributed more to the growth of the undocumented population than illegal crossings at the southern border; DHS and research gro...
Estimates for California’s undocumented population in recent reporting vary, but most reputable analyses in the set put the number between about 1.8 million and 2.6 million people — which, depending o...
Reliable estimates of the unauthorized (undocumented) immigrant population for 2017–2020 rest on a handful of recurring data sources and methods: primarily the U.S. Census Bureau’s surveys (the Americ...
The states with the largest estimated populations of undocumented (unauthorized) immigrants are consistently the largest immigrant destinations — led by California, Texas, Florida and New York — thoug...
Most analyses identify California and Texas as the two U.S. states with the largest undocumented immigrant populations, followed variably by depending on the dataset and year. Differences among estima...