Unauthorized Immigrant Totals Rise in 7 States, Fall in 14 [REPORT]

From 2009 to 2012, the population of unauthorized immigrants rose in seven states and fell in 14, according to new Pew Research Center estimates.
 
Five East Coast states were among those where the number of unauthorized immigrants grew from 2009 to 2012—Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Numbers also rose in Idaho and Nebraska.
 
Six Western states are among those with declines in unauthorized immigrant populations from 2009 to 2012—Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Oregon. Other states with decreases over that period are in the South (Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky), the Midwest (Illinois, Indiana and Kansas) and the Northeast (Massachusetts and New York).

A decline in unauthorized immigrants from Mexico was responsible for the decreases in 13 of the 14 states.

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