Dear reader,
Thank you for taking our mini-course on immigration! We recently published a new estimate of the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population. Our analysis finds that the number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States fell to 10.5 million in 2017, the lowest level in more than a decade. This decline was almost entirely due to a sharp decrease in the number of Mexican unauthorized immigrants coming to the U.S. In fact, their numbers declined so sharply that Mexicans are no longer the majority of immigrants living in the country illegally.
You can learn more about how we reach our estimate of the unauthorized immigrant population in this Q&A with senior demographer Jeff Passel.
Our email mini-course has been updated to reflect this new data. You may access the new findings and updated mini-course lessons at the links below.
New findings: Mexicans decline to less than half the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population for the first time
Lesson 1: Today’s immigrants
Lesson 2: Legal immigrants
Lesson 3: Unauthorized immigrants
Lesson 4: Immigration’s impact
Lesson 5: U.S. views of immigration
Best regards,
Mark Hugo Lopez
Director of Global Migration and Demography Research
Pew Research Center
@mhugolopez | @pewhispanic | @pewglobal
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