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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]
Other well-represented crimes among illegal immigrants known to be living in the US include sexual assault — with 523 convicted or suspected rapists in ICE custody and 20,061 not — and assault ...
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.
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 ...
The Federation for American Immigration Reform, which seeks to reduce overall immigration, estimated that 16.8 million “illegal aliens” were living in the U.S. as of June 2023.
U.S. states by net international migration (From April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2024) National Rank State Total net international migration (2020-2024) [1] Net international migration rate per 1,000 inhabitants (2020-2024) 1 Florida: 1,059,143: 49.18 2 California: 934,230: 23.62 3 Texas: 820,761: 28.16 4 New York: 519,395: 25.71 5 New Jersey: 327,188 ...
In contrast, President Trump removed an average of 131,716 immigrants with criminal convictions per year (FY 2017-FY 2020). So far, the Biden administration has deported a much lower average of ...
A 2020 study of media coverage from 1900-2013 found an increasing framing of stories in prominent news media helps to explain the misperception among many Americans that immigration increases crime, such as treating immigration itself as a crime and covering fewer crimes committed against immigrants. [39]