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In the Swanton Sector, which stretches across eastern New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire, the number of illegal crossings has shot up, from around 7,000 arrests during fiscal year 2023 to around ...
An average of 2.4 million immigrants per year poured into the US between 2021 and 2024, according to the Congressional Budget Office. About 60% of the migrants crossed into the US illegally, a ...
The immigration advocacy group FWD.us projected that there would be 14.5 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally by January 2025, up from the 11 million in 2022.
Immigration to the United States over time by region. In 2022 there was 46,118,600 immigrant residents in the United States or 13.8% of the US population according to the American Immigration Council. The number of undocumented or illegal immigrants stood at 9,940,700 in 2022 making up 21.6% of all immigrants or 3% of the total US population. [1]
Nonetheless, illegal immigrants as a group tend to be less educated than other sections of the US population: 49 percent have not completed high school, compared with 9 percent of native-born Americans and 25 percent of legal immigrants. [64] Illegal immigrants work in many sectors of the US economy.
Nearly 530,000 migrants between January 2023 and August 2024 legally flew to the United States under parole programs for four Latin American countries, [59] with the Biden administration arguing it helped reduce illegal Mexico-United States border crossings. The parole programs have been the subject of lawsuits by multiple Republican-led states.
Across the whole northern border, crossings have increased massively in recent years — with nearly 190,000 illegal migrants caught crossing from Canada in fiscal year 2023. That’s more than ...
In fiscal year 2023, just 32 percent of removal deportations were for illegal immigrants with a criminal record; in 2024 so far, just 1 in 5 removals were convicted criminals.