Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Unauthorized Immigrant Totals Rise in 7 States, Fall in 14
A Pew Hispanic Center report by Jeffrey S. Passel and D’Vera Cohn conclude that the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population has leveled off nationally after the Great Recession, but state trends have been more volatile. From 2009 to 2012, the population of unauthorized immigrants rose in seven states and fell in 14. Five East Coast states were among those where the number of unauthorized immigrants grew from 2009 to 2012—Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Numbers also rose in Idaho and Nebraska, according to the center’s estimates. Six Western states are among those with declines in unauthorized immigrant populations from 2009 to 2012—Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Oregon. Other states with decreases over that period are in the South (Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky), the Midwest (Illinois, Indiana and Kansas) and the Northeast (Massachusetts and New York).
KJ
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2014/11/unauthorized-immigrant-totals-rise-in-7-states-fall-in-14.html
