Report

• Recession Slows – but Does Not Reverse – Mexican Immigration

  Jul 22, 2009 - The flow of immigrants from Mexico to the United States has declined sharply since mid-decade, but there is no evidence of an increase during this period in the number of Mexican-born migrants returning home from the U.S., according to a new analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center of government data from both countries.

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• A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States

  Apr 14, 2009 - Unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S.—now estimated to number 11.9 million—are more geographically dispersed but their recent rapid growth in the labor force has halted. A new demographic analysis of this group by the Pew Hispanic Center includes population and labor force estimates for each state.

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• A Rising Share: Hispanics and Federal Crime

  Feb 18, 2009 - In 2007, Latinos accounted for 40% of all sentenced federal offenders—more than triple their share of the total U.S. adult population.

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• Unemployment Rises Sharply Among Latino Immigrants in 2008

  Feb 12, 2009 - The current recession is having an especially severe impact on employment prospects for immigrant Hispanics. The unemployment rate for foreign-born Latinos increased 2.9 percentage points from the fourth quarter of 2007 to the fourth quarter of 2008 compared with an economy-wide increase of 2.0 percentage points. Trends in other key indicators also reveal a more severe impact on immigrant Latinos.

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• Hispanics and the New Administration: Immigration Slips as a Top Priority

  Jan 15, 2009 - Latinos, who heavily supported Obama in the November election, rate such issues as the economy, health care and education as the more important issues facing the country. Hispanics were more likely to be first-time voters than were others in the general public.

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• Trends in Unauthorized Immigration: Undocumented Inflow Now Trails Legal Inflow

  Oct 02, 2008 - There were 11.9 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States in March 2008, according to new Pew Hispanic Center estimates. The inflow of immigrants who are undocumented has now fallen below that of immigrants who are legal permanent residents, reversing a trend that began a decade ago.

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• 2008 National Survey of Latinos: Hispanics See Their Situation in U.S. Deteriorating; Oppose Key Immigration Enforcement Measures

  Sep 18, 2008 - Half of all Latinos say that the situation of Latinos in this country is worse now than it was a year ago, according to a nationwide survey of Hispanic adults conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center. On the question of immigration enforcement, Latinos disapprove of all five enforcement measures asked about in this survey—and generally do so by lopsided margins.

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• Hispanics and Health Care in the United States: Access, Information and Knowledge

  Aug 13, 2008 - A Pew Hispanic Center/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study finds that more than one-fourth of Hispanic adults in the U.S. lack a usual health care provider, but when asked about why that is so, a plurality (41%) say the principal reason is that they are seldom sick

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• U.S. Population Projections: 2005–2050

  Feb 11, 2008 - If current trends continue, immigrants arriving from 2005 to 2050 and their descendants will account for 82% of the population growth in the United States during this period, according to new projections from the Pew Research Center.  The nation’s racial and ethnic mix will change markedly by mid-century, the projections show, and the nation’s elderly population will more than double in size.

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• English Usage Among Hispanics in the United States

  Nov 29, 2007 - This report from the Pew Hispanic Center examines the dramatic increase in English-language ability from one generation of Hispanics to the next.

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• Report: Mixed Views on Immigration Bill

  Jun 01, 2007 - The public is ambivalent about the immigration bill being debated by the Senate.Yet one of the bill's primary goals, to provide a way for people who are in this country illegally to gain legal citizenship under certain conditions, wins broad bipartisan support.

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• Its Heart Belongs to Data (Summer 2006 Trust Magazine article)

  Sep 01, 2006 - What’s most in the national interest in the immigration debate? Credible, unbiased information—and that’s the work of the Pew Hispanic Center.

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• 2006 National Survey of Latinos: The Immigration Debate

  Jul 13, 2006 - National survey of Latinos' attitudes surrounding the policy discussions on immigration in June 2006.

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• Size and Characteristics of the Unauthorized Migrant Population in the U.S.

  Mar 07, 2006 - Pew Hispanic Report on unauthorized migrant population, with estimates based on a March 2005 population survey.

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• Survey of Mexican Migrants: The Economic Transition to America

  Dec 05, 2005 - Report is the third in a series on the findings from a survey of Mexican migrants.

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• Rise, Peak and Decline: Trends in U.S. Immigration 1992–2004

  Sep 27, 2005 - Detailed analysis of immigration statistics produced by the Pew Hispanic Center offers insights into the pace and content of migration.

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• Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Immigration Policy: Surveys Among US Latinos And In Mexico

  Aug 19, 2005 - Immigration policy survey of the Latino population in the U.S. and in Mexico by the Pew Hispanic Center.

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• Unauthorized Migrants: Numbers and Characteristics

  Jun 15, 2005 - Most of the unauthorized population in the United States lives in families, a quarter has at least some college education and that illegal workers can be found in many sectors of the U.S. economy, according to this Pew Hispanic Center study.

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• Estimates of the Size and Characteristics of the Undocumented Population

  Mar 21, 2005 - Reports details estimates for size and characteristics of population of foreign-born persons living in the United States without documentation.

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