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The number of undocumented immigrants entering the United States between January 2021 and January 2025, with varying estimates from Pew Research Center and FAIR
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...
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...
Current expert estimates for the number of unauthorized (commonly labeled “illegal”) immigrants living in the cluster between about 11 million and 14 million, with alternative methods producing higher...
There is no authoritative, publicly available national tally that states exactly have been killed by people in the country unlawfully; efforts to produce single large totals (for example, viral claims...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has publicly claimed that between roughly 1.6 million and 1.9 million people “self‑deported” from the United States during 2025 as part of the administration’...
There is no single, reliable tally of how many people “entered undocumented” each calendar year from 2017–2020 because the government does not—and cannot—count undetected crossings; analysts therefore...
Current authoritative estimates of the number of people living in the without legal immigration status cluster roughly between about , but alternative methodologies and partisan analyses produce highe...
Available government and academic estimates do not produce a single, undisputed tally of how many people “entered illegally” between 2009 and 2016; instead, the literature shows that illegal border cr...
Recent estimates of the total undocumented (unauthorized) immigrant population in the for the 2020–2025 window vary widely because different research teams use distinct data sources and methods; headl...
There is no single, authoritative count in the provided reporting that answers how many were killed in 2025 by people classified as “illegal immigrants”; federal agencies and independent researchers c...
The question as posed—“”—is ambiguous because it does not specify the reference group for “different race” or which race categories to compare; available public reporting describes undocumented popula...
Mainstream, peer-reviewed and government-linked estimates in recent years place the number of undocumented (also described as unauthorized or illegal) immigrants in the in a band roughly between about...
The most widely cited, survey-based estimates place the number of undocumented (unauthorized) immigrants in in 2016 at roughly 10.7–11.4 million, a figure reported by , , and echoed in analyses . Howe...
Official research estimates place the number of people living in the without authorization in 2021 at roughly between about , with prominent organizations reporting 10.5 million () and roughly 11.2–11...
Reliable, peer-reviewed "" estimates show that the unauthorized immigrant population at the national level stayed roughly flat from 2017 through 2020 — centered in a band of about 10.5 million to 11.5...
As of mid‑2025, authoritative estimates place the total unauthorized (undocumented) immigrant population in the low‑to‑mid‑teens of millions; applying the well‑documented age profile of that populatio...
The reporting assembled does not provide a definitive count of how many were deported from the in calendar year 2024; available official tallies report total removals by agency and nationality groupin...
The number of people in the United States without authorization during the Trump administration is not a single settled figure in the public record; estimates and counts vary by metric — apprehensions...