Unauthorized Immigrants Are Here For The Long Haul
by SavvyRoo on Sep 28, 2014 | Views: 82 | Score: 0
| Percent of Unauthorized Adult Immigrants That Have Remained In The US For ... 10 Years Or More | Less Than 5 Years | |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 37 | 38 |
| 2004 | 39 | 35 |
| 2005 | 41 | 31 |
| 2006 | 42 | 29 |
| 2007 | 44 | 27 |
| 2008 | 47 | 24 |
| 2009 | 50 | 22 |
| 2010 | 54 | 20 |
| 2011 | 60 | 17 |
| 2012 | 62 | 15 |
| 2013 | 61 | 16 |
Sources:
pewhispanic.org
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Over the past decade, a larger and larger percent of illegal immigrants are remaining in the United States for a duration of at least ten years. While in 2003, the numbers of short term and long term undocumented immigrants were nearly equal, they have since diverged by forty-five percent.