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Two leading, recent estimates put ’s undocumented (unauthorized) population between roughly 95,000 and 130,000 people, with analysts and advocates citing older or narrower estimates as low as about 81...
Estimates vary depending on the measure: "encounters" at the border number in the millions (for example, roughly from Feb. 2021–Sept. 2024) while government processing produced roughly 2.5 million rel...
By mid‑decade the consensus across major researchers was clear: the largest concentrations of undocumented (unauthorized) immigrants remain in a small set of large states — led by California and Texas...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Photographs from 2014 show children behind chain‑link fencing at U.S. border processing sites during the , and officials at the time described chain‑link partitions or fenced enclosures used to hold m...
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...
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...
Current expert estimates for the number of unauthorized (commonly labeled “illegal”) immigrants living in the cluster between about 11 million and 14 million, with alternative methods producing higher...
’s recent state-by-state analysis is the best publicly available baseline for and places ’s unauthorized (commonly called “undocumented” or “illegal”) population at about 130,000, at about 2.1 million...
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...
do not have a single, universally agreed‑upon line item in GDP tables, but recent analyses place their direct economic footprint in the hundreds of billions annually: researchers and advocacy groups e...
Estimates of ’s undocumented (unauthorized) population vary widely because researchers use different sources and adjustments; recent, widely cited work from the estimates about 130,000 as of 2023 , wh...
and the under trended downward overall while the administration simultaneously increased formal removals and prioritized criminal and recent border crossers for deportation—moves that produced both re...
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...
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...
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...
(unauthorized or undocumented immigrants) living in each vary significantly depending on methodology and data vintage: major analytic centers publish divergent national totals—roughly 11.0 million (DH...