While Mexico is the United States’ largest source of immigrants, the number of Mexican immigrants living in the U.S. illegally has declined since 2007.
Compared with 2000, suburban populations are less engaged in the labor market, experiencing declining incomes and seeing home values that have not kept pace with those of the central cities.
Five regions for the nationality of unauthorized immigrants are used in this report. They come from two different data sources: (1) labor force surveys and (2) asylum seeker data for those with pending decisions. A single asterisk (*) indicates a country or territory that appears in the country list of regions coded in labor force […]
Some respondents simply answer that they live outside the U.S. One way to measure how many people taking a poll do not actually live in America is simply to ask. A question in the study did just that, asking respondents whether they currently live “outside the U.S.” or “inside the U.S.” While informative, such a […]