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Illegal Immigrants in
California and Los Angeles County
According to the
U.S.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), an
estimated 2,830,000
illegal immigrants
resided in California in 2011, compared to 1.5 million in 1990 and
2.5 million in 2000. This number represents
about 24
percent of the
entire estimated illegal immigrant
population in the United States
(11.5 million in 2011).
This estimate puts the percentage of California's
population that are illegal
immigrants to be about 7.5 percent,
with a
majority (about 60 percent) being from Mexico. Across the
entire
United States, an estimated 6.8 million
illegal immigrants
were
from Mexico, up from 4.7 million in 2000.
Los Angeles County
DHS does not offer estimates for the
illegal immigrant population specifically in Los Angeles County, but
the
Los Angeles Almanac studied comparative statistics of English language
learners in California school districts
that might assist in estimating the illegal immigrant population in individual
counties and cities. The Almanac
estimates that
Los Angeles County was home to 762,000 illegal immigrants in 2010.
Even if using the 7.5
percent
of California's population as illegal immigrants as a broadly
applied percentage across California,
the estimate of the illegal immigrant population in Los Angeles County
exceeds 700,000. The Almanac further
estimates that about 382,000 illegal immigrants living within the area
encompassed by the Los Angeles Unified
School District (that includes East Los Angeles and South
Gate); 36,000 live in the
area encompassed by the
Long Beach School District; 24,000 live in the
area encompassed by the Compton
School District; 21,000
live in the area encompassed by the
Pomona
School District; 19,000 live in the
area encompassed by the
Montebello School District;
12,000 live in the area encompassed by the
Lynwood School District. The
remaining 35 percent of illegal
immigrants in Los Angeles County, or an estimated 268,000, live
elsewhere in
the county.
Immigration has long been a hot issue in California, even as
far back as the latter days of California's
Mexican period
(1822 to 1846). Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California, lamented, "We find
ourselves
suddenly threatened by hordes of Yankee immigrants...whose progress we
cannot arrest."
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