Pew’s new estimate puts 2023’s unauthorized resident population at 14 million, the highest on record. A stock this large reframes policy from emergency flows to long‑run management of residents—affecting labor, schools, health systems, and debates over enforcement versus legalization.
— It shifts immigration debates toward managing a durable population stock rather than assuming quick reversals via episodic crackdowns.
Sara Atske
2025.08.21
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Pew Research Center estimates 14 million unauthorized immigrants in 2023, a new record.
2018.09.21
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Both the article and the cited idea challenge the prevailing stock estimate of unauthorized residents, arguing that updated methods and data can materially raise the baseline. Here, MIT–Yale scholars estimate ~22.1M (vs. the common ~11.3M) using operational flows; the Pew idea updates the figure to 14M for 2023. Together they show how measurement choices reset policy baselines.
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