More than 11 Million: Unauthorized Immigrants and Their Families

This Urban Institute Fact Sheet by Maria E. Enchautegui shows how the effects of immigration reform proposals will extend well beyond the 11 million unauthorized U.S. residents. Those unauthorized immigrants share their homes with 8.7 million people who legally reside in the United States. Three quarters of those legal residents are U.S. born citizens and 60 percent are children.

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