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The number of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. has stabilized in recent years after decades of rapid growth. But there have been shifts in the states where unauthorized immigrants live and the countries where they were born.
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5 facts about illegal immigration in the U.S. Pew Research Center
2Mexicans make up about half of all unauthorized immigrants (52%), though their numbers have been declining in recent years. There were5.9 million Mexican unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. in 2012, down from 6.4 million in 2009, according to Pew Research Center estimates. Over the same time period, the number of unauthorized immigrants from Asia, the Caribbean, Central America and a grouping of countries in the Middle East, Africa and some other areas grew slightly (unauthorized immigrant populations from South America and Europe/Canada did not change significantly).
The numbers just happen to coincide with the down turn in the economy.
What a coincidence eh...?