Are undocumented immigrants illegal?

Estimates from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Pew Research Center place the number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. at approximately 11.1 to 11.4 million. read more

5 facts about illegal immigration in the U.S. By Jens Manuel Krogstad, Jeffrey S. Passel and D’Vera Cohn For the first time, the number of unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. was lower in 2015 than it was at the end of the Great Recession in 2009. read more

Many migrant workers are documented (quite a few are natural-born citizens), and many undocumented immigrants are not migrant workers. The migrant workers' movement certainly overlaps with the immigrants' rights movement, but it is not the same movement. read more