By Jesus Garcia
05 Aug 2024, 15:45 PM EDT
Although Republican candidates claim that there are more than 20 million undocumented immigrants, two recent reports indicate that the number is far from that.
According to the Pew Research Center, for example, the population of people without papers authorizing them to stay in the United States is estimated to have increased by around half a million, according to data from 2022 and compared to 2021.
In total, it is estimated that there are 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country.
“The number of immigrants without authorization to live in the United States in 2022 remains below the peak of 12.2 million in 2007,” the report notes.
Even though the number of immigrants has increased, some 500,000 people were granted parole—now suspended—in the country through two federal programs: the program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans (CHNV) and the United for Ukraine (U4U) program.
“Traditionally, groups like these have been considered part of the unauthorized immigrant population, but almost none of them appear in the 2022 estimates,” it noted.
Mark Hugo López, director of Race and Ethnicity Research at Pew, explains in the podcast “El Diario Sin Límites” how the study was conducted and provides more details about it.
“We are using a method called the ‘residual method’ and so we know how many immigrants are here, how many are citizens, how many are here legally and so people whose situation we do not know everything about may be undocumented,” he explained.
>> What is the residual method applied to estimate the number of undocumented immigrants?
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