illegal immigration Flashcards


9the amount
of jobs been taken.

a estimated 8 million.


how many
illegal immigrants are living in the untied states.

as of 2016 there are 10.7 illegal immigrants in the untied states.

the rate of us illegal immigration through the years.

there has been a slight decline between 2005 and 2016 in 2005 there
was 12.2 million illegal immigrants.

6 states account for 58 % of illegal immigrants.

those states are California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey and Illinois.

how many people are crossing the border illegally.

There�s no official measure of how many people succeed in illegally
crossing the border, but authorities use the number of apprehensions
to gauge changes in illegal immigration. Apprehensions on the
Southwest border peaked in 2000 at 1.64 million and have generally
declined since, totaling 396,579 in 2018.

people also get visas to come to the untied states for a few months
and never go back.

A Center for Migration Studies report estimates that 44 percent of
those in living in the U.S. illegally in 2015 were visa overstays.
That�s up from an estimated 41 percent in 2008.

theirs also children with no ones else helping them trying to cross
the border.

Using the same time period that we have for family units, the number
of children under age 18 apprehended crossing the border without a
parent or legal guardian.

theirs a lot of border patrol agents.

In fiscal year 2017, there were 19,437 border patrol agents. The
number peaked in fiscal year 2011 at 21,444, so it has declined a bit
since then. But the number of agents is still much larger than it was
about two decades ago.

how many people are deported each year.

The Department of Homeland Security says 340,056 people were removed
from the U.S. in fiscal 2016. A �removal� is �the compulsory and
confirmed movement of an inadmissible or deportable alien out of the
United States based on an order of removal.