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September 1, 2010

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U.S. Unauthorized Immigration Flows

Are Down Sharply Since Mid-Decade

The

annual inflow of unauthorized immigrants to the United States was

nearly two-thirds smaller in the March 2007 to March 2009 period than

it had been from March 2000 to March 2005, according to new estimates

by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.

This

sharp decline has contributed to an overall reduction of 8% in the

number of unauthorized immigrants currently living in the U.S.-to 11.1

million in March 2009 from a peak of 12 million in March 2007,

according to the estimates. The decrease represents the first

significant reversal in the growth of this population over the past two

decades.

These

new Pew Hispanic Center estimates rely on data mainly from the Census

Bureau's Current Population Survey and decennial census. The unauthorized

immigrant population is estimated using the widely accepted residual

method, in which a demographic estimate of the legal foreign-born

population is subtracted from the total foreign-born population. The

difference provides the basis for estimating the size and

characteristics of the unauthorized immigrant population.

The

Pew Hispanic Center's analysis also finds that the most marked decline

in the population of unauthorized immigrants has been among those who

come from Latin American countries other than Mexico. From 2007 to

2009, the size of this group from the Caribbean, Central America and

South America decreased 22%.

The

recent decrease in the unauthorized population has been especially

notable along the nation's Southeast coast and in its Mountain West,

according to the new estimates. The number of unauthorized immigrants

in Florida, Nevada and Virginia shrank from 2008 to 2009. Other states

may have had declines, but they fell within the margin of error for

these estimates.

Not

counting Florida and Virginia, the unauthorized immigrant population

also declined in the area encompassing the rest of the South Atlantic division

that extends between Delaware and Georgia. In addition to the decline

in Nevada, three other Mountain states-Arizona, Colorado and

Utah-experienced a decrease in their combined unauthorized immigrant

population from 2008 to 2009.

The report, " U.S. Unauthorized Immigration Flows Are Down Sharply

Since Mid-Decade, " authored by Passel, Senior

Demographer, Pew Hispanic Center, and D'Vera Cohn, Senior Writer, Pew

Research Center, is available at the Pew Hispanic Center's website, www.pewhispanic.org.

The Pew Hispanic Center, a

project of the Pew Research Center, is a

nonpartisan, non-advocacy research organization based in

Washington, D.C. and is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

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