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Steven A. Camarota’s 2024 work at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) relied primarily on federal survey and administrative datasets — Census Bureau products such as the American Community Survey...
The best available national breakdowns of registered voters by race and ethnicity for 2024–25 come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s CPS Voting and Registration supplement and secondary analyses by Pew an...
As of the most recent analyses compiled here, the best-supported estimate places the unauthorized immigrant population in the United States at roughly , with multiple analyses indicating a likely ; es...
Reporting from multiple analysts indicates that Democratic voters in 2024 were substantially more likely than the electorate as a whole to hold a four‑year college degree or higher, with mainstream su...
The available materials do not provide a single, authoritative national percentage of grocery and retail workers who personally rely on SNAP benefits; no source in the provided dataset reports that sp...
The United States does not maintain a single, exact headcount of unauthorized immigrants; instead, multiple respected research bodies produce estimates that currently span roughly 11 million to 14 mil...
Demographers estimate net unauthorized immigrant population change by combining household survey totals for the foreign‑born with administratively based counts of lawful immigrants, subtracting the la...
The legally resident (foreign‑born) population of the United States grew substantially from 2010 into the early 2020s — rising from roughly 40 million in the 2010 era to record highs above 50 million ...
Policymakers and media have widely cited Steven Camarota’s 2024 and 2025 analyses — especially his use of the Current Population Survey (CPS) to argue that the foreign‑born and unauthorized population...
Reliable 2025 estimates for U.S. residents born in Somalia rest mainly on U.S. Census Bureau products — especially the decennial census and the American Community Survey (ACS) — whose recent ACS-based...
National surveys routinely collect demographic data (age, sex, race/Hispanic origin, marital status, education, income) alongside topic-specific questions; for example, the National Crime Victimizatio...
Estimates of how many “illegal” or unauthorized immigrants live in the United States vary widely by method and by the group producing the estimate: leading research centers put the unauthorized popula...
The available analyses agree that primary data sources used to estimate noncitizen or undocumented participation in SNAP are ; analysts supplement USDA counts with CPS/ACS/SIPP microdata and research-...