It's a continuing curiosity that, generally speaking, it seems like the greatest fear of illegal immigration comes from states that are nowhere near the southern border. It turns out that Pew Research has state-by-state figures, so I went ahead and plotted it:
The four border states are California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Their population share of illegal immigrants is currently 4.8%. For the rest of the country it's 2.7%. In both, the number has been declining for 15 years.
This only goes through 2021, and it will be a while before we see what effect the current border surge has had. But in 2021 the country was 1.7 million below its 2007 peak, so 2022 and 2023 are unlikely to set any kind of record.
Are you quoting "Facts" , "Stats" or "Science"?? - Silly boy
iaw the new rules of GOP debating-
Trump will say what he wants
His Base will believe everything, and write him a check
Fox News will confirm it
and 48 GOP Senators will say- NOTHING
hell, maybe some from the other side
When you're backed by the crazies, Wall St, and senators beholding to lobbies
It's hard to ague
Sorry Ben, it's been shaky for some time, very shaky since 2016, but I fear this is the decade when we unequivocally show that we in fact can NOT keep the republic.
I wonder if the chart is correct or perhaps misleading.
According to the chart, the illegal population (not my terminology) remains basically unchanged over the last, about, twenty years. Yet, the news has a lot of coverage about NYC, Chicago etc and the challenges in addressing this 'exploding' population. Sure seems like there must be some type of increase, that is not reflected in the chart...
"exploding population"
I knew it. We gotta close off the border with a wall
from "sea to sea"
put an impenetrable barrier between us and those pesky Canadians
oh, wait.............
People in Florida would argue they are a "border state". Because boat people.