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A method for estimating the unauthorized population by subtracting the legally resident foreign-born from the total foreign-born population.
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...
The short answer: credible estimates place the unauthorized (often called “undocumented” or “illegal”) population in in 2001 at roughly people, with official and academic estimates varying and some al...
, and most independent demographers primarily rely on variants of the "residual" estimation approach—start with survey or census counts of the foreign-born, subtract the estimated legally resident for...
Three families of methods dominate efforts to count the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population: the residual estimation approach that subtracts estimated lawful immigrants from total foreign‑born coun...