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Method used by MPI and Pew to estimate unauthorized immigrant population, involving subtracting estimated legally resident foreign-born population from total foreign-born count
Estimates suggest a relatively small minority of the U.S. unauthorized/undocumented population was born in Europe — on the order of a few hundred thousand people — but precise counts vary by data sour...
The short answer: there is no single, uncontested tally of “how many illegals ,” but the best empirical reading of available government encounter data and independent points to a net increase in the u...
and both rely on a variant of the “residual” method—subtracting an estimated legally resident foreign‑born population from the total foreign‑born count in surveys—but they implement that approach diff...
, 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...