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Changes in the unauthorized immigrant population in the US during 2024 and 2025, with some sources indicating growth and others suggesting a decline.
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...
The states with the largest populations of unauthorized (undocumented) immigrants are consistently California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey and Illinois — a pattern that appears across multipl...
Most reputable demographic researchers place the unauthorized (illegal/undocumented) immigrant population of the in 2025 near the low-to-mid tens of millions, with the best current syntheses pointing ...
in has grown since 2019 but the increase has not been uniform: national estimates from policy researchers show several million more unauthorized residents concentrated increasingly in a subset of stat...
Changes to and tougher in 2024–2025 materially altered the flows counted in administrative data and likely slowed — and by mid‑2025 probably reversed — the upward trajectory of the , though the popula...
Available reporting shows that American (and broader n) aliyah to rose sharply in 2021 to roughly 4,000 arrivals from the and again reached one of its largest recent tallies in 2025 with about 4,150 N...
Mexico remained the single largest country of origin for undocumented immigrants in the United States as of the most recent, widely used estimates (mid‑2023 to early 2025), but the unauthorized popula...
The relied on a “residual” method between 2001 and 2008 that subtracted known legal foreign‑born counts from survey totals, adjusted for undercount, mortality and migration, to infer the () . Official...
The short answer: is evident — the unauthorized (undocumented) population rose in 2022 after a decade of decline and estimates for 2022–2023 cluster around 11–11.4 million, even as long‑running declin...
Parole programs and the way were counted between 2023 and 2024 materially raised official and academic estimates of the unauthorized-immigrant population by adding large numbers of people who were enc...