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are counted in because the Census counts all residents regardless of immigration status () and therefore they do affect headline population totals used for and many statistics . That effect is real bu...
Official and survey-based reporting puts the universe of registered voters in late 2024 at roughly , with party-registration tallies clustering around 45–49 million Democrats, 36–39 million Republican...
Official tallies and independent estimates for 2025 diverge sharply: the publicly claimed government operations produced more than 605,000 and roughly 1.9 million voluntary “self-deportations,” totali...
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...
estimates of the undocumented (or unauthorized) immigrant population rest on a mix of survey “residual” calculations, administrative flow accounting, microdata bottom‑up reconstructions and alternativ...
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...
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...
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 three leading estimates — the , the , and the — start from the same basic toolset (the ’s surveys and the “residual” approach) but produce different headline totals because they use different micr...
Three leading estimators—the , the , and the —all start from the same problem ( and ACS do not record legal status) and largely rely on the residual estimation family of techniques, but they implement...
Researchers typically use a "residual" approach built on surveys — primarily the and the — that subtracts an independently estimated count of legally present immigrants from the total foreign‑born mea...
Three leading sets of estimates—, the , and the —all start from the same basic “residual” idea (total foreign‑born in surveys minus estimated legal foreign‑born = likely ), but they diverge in the dat...
“encounters” are operational counts of interactions between migrants and authorities—events recorded in enforcement tables—not measurements of the resident unauthorized population . By contrast, estim...
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 ...
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...