5 East Coast States Seeing More Unauthorized Immigrants, Report Says
The unauthorized immigrant population has leveled off in the U.S. overall, according to Pew Research Center.
A Salvadorian minor carries her family's passports after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico into the United States on July 24, 2014 in Mission, Texas.
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With the immigration debate taking center stage in Washington, a Pew Research Center report released Tuesday shows the unauthorized immigrant population has leveled off in the U.S., even as population trends in select states remain more volatile.
From 2009 to 2012, Pew estimates the unauthorized immigrant population rose in seven states and fell in 14. Those 21 states were the ones that had statistically significant changes in their populations of unauthorized immigrants during the period.