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Demographic research groups like Pew estimate the population of unauthorized immigrants using surveys and administrative records.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recorded more than 10.8 million “encounters” nationwide from the start of Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 through the end of FY2024, with over 8.7 million of those at the Sou...
’s 2023 state-level estimates of the are built from survey data (primarily the ), adjusted with administrative records and demographic corrections, and then reweighted to account for recent revisions ...
The gulf between FAIR’s 18.6 million figure and Pew’s 14 million estimate of unauthorized residents flows from methodological choices about data sources, timing, who is counted as “unauthorized,” and ...