Edward Conard

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AI Summary. Border apprehensions and expulsions of unauthorized migrants have reached record levels, with nearly 250,000 crossings in a single month. The Pew Research Center estimates 10.5m unauthorized immigrants live in the US, roughly 3% of residents and 22% of the foreign-born population—the lowest shares since the 1990s.

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.@TheEconomist notes that illegal immigration is as at a record under President Biden: nearly 250,000 crossed the border in November alone, compared to an average of 100,000/month in the 1980s through to the early 2000s.

Are record border crossings coinciding with decades-low unauthorized population shares?

Core argument: Nearly 250,000 undocumented migrants crossed the U.S. border in November alone, and record numbers of apprehensions and expulsions have occurred during Joe Biden's presidency, making him a clear outlier on border crossings.

Mr Biden is a clear outlier in terms of the number of undocumented, or illegal, migrants crossing the border. During his presidency there have been record numbers of apprehensions and expulsions at the border; nearly 250,000 people crossed in November alone. The Pew Research Centre reckons that there were 10.5m illegal immigrants in 2021, the latest year available. That is roughly the same as in 2017 and fewer than in any other year between 2005 and 2015. It also puts illegal migrants at roughly 3% of people living in America and 22% of the country’s foreign-born population—the lowest shares since the 1990s. This data does not include estimates since the latest wave of encounters at the border; some 600,000 people are thought to have slipped through undetected in 2023.

Takeaways by Macro Roundup® AI

  1. Nearly 250,000 undocumented migrants crossed the U.S. border in November alone, and record numbers of apprehensions and expulsions have occurred during Joe Biden's presidency, making him a clear outlier on border crossings.
  2. The Pew Research Centre estimates there were 10.5m illegal immigrants in the United States in 2021, roughly the same as in 2017 and fewer than in any year between 2005 and 2015.
  3. Pew reckons illegal migrants made up roughly 3% of people living in America and 22% of the foreign-born population, the lowest shares since the 1990s, excluding the estimated 600,000 thought to have slipped through undetected in 2023.

Related Articles:

  • What We Know About Unauthorized Immigrants Living In The U.S. — The Pew Research Center estimates the unauthorized immigrant population in the United States at 10.5m, below its peak of 12.2m and lower than every year from 2005 to 2015. That figure represents about 3% of the total U.S. population and 22% of the foreign-born population, shares among the lowest since the 1990s.
  • The Demographic Outlook: 2024 to 2054 — The Congressional Budget Office projects the US population will grow from 342mm in 2024 to 383mm in 2054, an average 0.4% a year — less than half the 0.9% pace of the prior five decades. Immigration accounts for about 70% of growth over the next decade and for all population growth beginning in 2040.
  • Ten Charts Compare Joe Biden’s Record With Donald Trump’s — Apprehensions at the southern border are the best available measure of illegal immigration into the US, though the figures are hard to interpret: they tend to rise when the economy is strong, and a pandemic-era public-health expulsion policy prompted repeat crossing attempts that partly explain a spike in encounters.
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