Who are undocumented immigrants?

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

Illegal immigration is the illegal entry of a person or a group of persons across a country's border, in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country, with the intention to remain in the country. Illegal immigration, as well as immigration in general, is overwhelmingly upward, from a poorer to a richer country. read more

Undocumented (also known as illegal or unauthorized) immigrants are not directly identified in any representative national or state surveys. But the best estimates suggest that in 2014, the year of the most recent data available, California was home to between 2.35 and 2.6 million undocumented immigrants. read more