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60% Of Adult Illegal Immigrants Have Lived In U.S. For At Least 10 Years

December 1st, 2011 (9) Posted By Pat Dollard.

More than 60% of adult illegal immigrants in the U.S. have lived here for at least 10 years and nearly half have minor children, according to a report published Thursday by the Pew Hispanic Center.

The analysis based on data from the March 2010 Current Population Survey and the Pew Hispanic Center’s 2010 National Survey of Latinos shows a marked increase in the long-term duration of illegal immigrants in the U.S. compared with a decade ago.

Currently, about 35% of illegal immigrants adults have been in the U.S. for 15 years or more; in 2000 only about 16% had been in the country for that long, says the report, titled “Unauthorized Immigrants: Length of Residency, Patterns of Parenthood.”
An additional 28% have been in the country for 10 to 14 years, a percentage has not changed since 2000. Meanwhile, the percentage of illegal immigrants who have lived in the country for fewer than five years dropped from 32% in 2000 to 15% in 2010.

According to the report, the increased duration of unauthorized immigrants in the country reflects a surge in illegal immigration in the late 1990s and early 2000s but has since slowed due to the sputtering U.S. economy and increased border enforcement.

In addition, relatively few of those who have been in the United States for a long time are now returning to their home countries. There are about 10.2 million unauthorized adults living in the country and an additional 1 million children under the age of 18, according to the report.

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Anonymous

I think we have to acknowledge that they have been paying taxes. How many will get their social security? A large percentage probably also have citizen children. It may be similar to the 30′s and 40′s when Asians were not allowed to become citizens. They bought property in their children’s names. This is important to follow.

Visitor

That doesn’t erase or justify their crime/s. Bank robbers pay taxes, car thieves pay taxes. We can all acknowledge that they do pay taxes but it doesn’t justify or erase their responsibility for their crimes. And managing to stay in the U.S. long-term as illegal aliens only cements them as career criminals.
Visitor

Another thing: you change the subject into what you refer to as race and/or ethnicity. The issue is illegal aliens who are defined by their behaviors, violations of our laws. No one’s claiming anyone of any race or ethnicity somehow should be or is denied citizenship because of their race or ethnicity. But people who have behaved in violation of our laws don’t qualify for citizenship and shouldn’t, regardless of what race or ethnicity is theirs.
Anonymous

I was not trying to change the subject. I forgot to introduce a segue in there. We are looking at family units if people have been here for more than 10 years. It is a complicated issue. There are often dependent children who are citizens.
ATTILA

Only through a mal interpretation of the 14th amendment are they “citizens”.
Anonymous

Until that is changed, this is the law of the land.

Rocky Mtn 1776

This comes as no surprise since our last 5 Presidents absolutely refused to enforce our immigrations laws ! Guess who allowed them to get away with it ?
Rocky Mtn 1776

This comes as no surprise since our last 5 Presidents absolutely refused to enforce our immigrations laws ! Guess who allowed them to get away with it ?
GRIZZ

Well,they can say they had 10 good years as they walk their ass back to mexico