{"id":1470364,"date":"2024-06-10T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1470364"},"modified":"2024-06-10T01:35:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T05:35:00","slug":"mapping-illegal-immigrants-by-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/mapping-illegal-immigrants-by-state\/1470364\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Illegal Immigrants By State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Mapping Illegal Immigrants By State<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>U.S. President Joe Biden recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/06\/04\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-securing-our-border\/\">announced<\/a>\u00a0actions to bar immigrants who cross the US-Mexico border illegally.<\/p>\n<p>In this graphic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/mapped-unauthorized-immigrants-by-state\/\">Visual Capitalist&#8217;s Bruno Venditti maps<\/a> the number of unauthorized immigrants by state, based on 2021 estimates from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2023\/11\/16\/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us\/\">Pew Research Center<\/a>\u00a0based on calculations using U.S. Census Bureau data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Immigrants.jpg?itok=rvvYABBU\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Undocumented Immigrants Concentrated in Certain States<\/h2>\n<p>The unauthorized immigrant population in the United States was estimated at around\u00a0<strong>10 million<\/strong>\u00a0in 2021 after peaking at\u00a0<strong>12.2 million<\/strong>\u00a0in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois had the largest unauthorized immigrant populations in 2021. These six states were home to\u00a0<strong>56%<\/strong>\u00a0of the nation\u2019s unauthorized immigrants in 2021, down from 80% in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2017 and 2021, the unauthorized immigrant populations in Florida and Washington increased, while those in California and Nevada decreased.<\/p>\n<p>The most common country of birth for people without legal status is Mexico. In recent years, however, there have been increases in immigrants from nearly every other region of the world\u2014Central America, the Caribbean, South America, Asia, Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, around\u00a0<strong>5%<\/strong>\u00a0of U.S. workers are unauthorized immigrants.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post,\u00a0be sure to\u00a0check out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/why-do-people-immigrate-to-the-us\/\">Why Do People Immigrate to the U.S.?<\/a>\u00a0This visualization shows why immigrants choose to come to America.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sun, 06\/09\/2024 &#8211; 21:35<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/mapping-illegal-immigrants-state\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/mapping-illegal-immigrants-state<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mapping Illegal Immigrants By State U.S. President Joe Biden recently\u00a0announced\u00a0actions to bar immigrants who cross the US-Mexico border illegally. In this graphic, Visual Capitalist&#8217;s Bruno&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1470365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-6avy","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/Immigrants-fM4F9c.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1470365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}