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Immigration to the United States over time by region. In 2022 there was 46,118,600 immigrant residents in the United States or 13.8% of the US population according to the American Immigration Council. The number of undocumented or illegal immigrants stood at 9,940,700 in 2022 making up 21.6% of all immigrants or 3% of the total US population. [1]
Before the pandemic, roughly 9 in 10 migrants crossing the border illegally (that is, between ports of entry) came from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — the four countries closest ...
According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 8,050 people have died crossing the U.S–Mexico border between 1998 and 2020. [3] In 2005, more than 500 died across the entire U.S.–Mexico border. [8] The number of yearly border crossing deaths doubled from 1995 to 2005, [9] and has since declined and then risen. [3]
In 1996, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act was passed which expedited the deportation of immigrants who were detained crossing the border. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 , more aggressive immigration laws were implemented which gave more power to the USBP.
Since the Covid restrictions known as Title 42 were lifted in mid-May, the number of migrants crossing the border without documents or appointments for asylum hearings fell to fewer than 145,000 ...
On an average day this week, border agents in the El Paso sector, which covers west Texas and New Mexico, have caught fewer than 100 migrants crossing illegally — all thanks to the Trump border ...
From 2005 to 2009, the number of people entering the US illegally every year declined from a yearly average of 850,000 in the early 2000s to 300,000 in 2009, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. [66] The most recent estimates put the number of illegal immigrants at 11 million in 2015, representing 3.4% of the total US population. [7]
President-elect Donald Trump won a historic victory in a border county with a 97% Hispanic population on ... The shift in south Texas came as the border and illegal immigration rose as one of the ...