Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Geographic origins of illegal immigrants[edit]
Illegal immigrants are all foreign-born non-citizens who are not legal residents. Most of them either entered the United States without inspection or were admitted temporarily and stayed past the date they were required to leave.
[11] It is very hard to study the illegal population, but estimates indicate that about one-third of the foreign-born population now living in the US is illegal.
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Center for Immigration Studies reported in 2012 that about 50% of 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States arrived legally with temporary, non-immigrant visas and then overstay per David Seminara, CIS.
[11] Of all unauthorized immigrants living in the United States in 2009, 63 percent entered before 2000, and 62 percent were from Mexico.
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About three-quarters (75%) of the nation's unauthorized immigrants are
Latino. The majority of illegal immigrants (59%) are from Mexico. Significant regional sources of unauthorized immigrants include Asia (11%), Central America (11%), South America (7%), the Caribbean (4%) and the Middle East (less than 2%). Illegal immigrants constitute 4% of the nation's population. Approximately two-thirds have been in the U.S. for 10 years or fewer.
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