The Pew Hispanic Center (PHC) released the annual report, “Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, 2010” in February 2011. The report highlights demographic estimates and trends of the unauthorized immigrant population as well as the unauthorized labor force, both nationally and on the individual state levels.
The estimate for unauthorized immigrants living in the United States was reported as 11.2 million for 2010. This is more than triple the estimate for 1990 (3.5 million). While unauthorized immigration flows have decreased in some states, PHC reports a statistically significant increase in Texas from approximately 1.5 million in 2007 to 1.8 million in 2010. Texas has the second largest population of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S.
According the Pew Research Center website, The Pew Hispanic Center is part of a nonpartisan “fact tank” based in Washington, D.C. that seeks to improve the public understanding of the diverse Hispanic population in the U.S. and to track Latino’s growing impact on the nation. All of the center’s reports are available at www.pewhispanic.org
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