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TITLE: Annual Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population in the United States, by State: 1990 to 2008 AUTHOR: Robert Warren PAGES: 25 DATE: June 2011 ABSTRACT: This report shows annual estimates of the unauthorized immigrant population for the United States and for each state from 1990 to 2008. Estimates were made for each state and were summed to produce the estimate for the nation as a whole. The estimates were computed using the residual method, in which estimates of the legal immigrant population were subtracted from the total foreign-born population counted by the Census Bureau, and an adjustment made for undercounts. Estimates of arrivals and departures of unauthorized immigrants were derived for each state. The report finds a total of 11.2 million unauthorized residents as of January 2008. At the beginning of the decade, this population was growing rapidly—by more than 800,000 in 2000 alone. By 2007, the population had essentially stopped growing – there were 58,000 fewer unauthorized immigrants in the United States in January 2008 than there were in January 2007. Although the population increased in 26 states in 2007, only two of those states grew by more than 5,000—North Carolina (13,000) and Georgia (7,000). The states with the largest unauthorized immigrant populations (California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Illinois) were at or below zero growth in 2007. PPIC working papers present work in progress and may not be quoted or cited without permission of the author. Comments or suggestions, however, are welcome. |