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Illegal Immigrants in
California and Los Angeles County
According to the
U.S. Department of
Homeland Security, Office of Immigration Statistics (DHS), an
estimated 2,600,000
illegal immigrants
resided in California in 2009, compared to 1.5 million in 1990 and
2.5 million in 2000. This number represents about 25
percent of the
entire estimated illegal immigrant
population in the United States
(10.8 million in 2009). This estimate puts the percentage of California's
population that are illegal
immigrants to be about 6.8 percent, with a
majority being from Mexico. Across the
entire
United States, an estimated 6.7 million illegal immigrants
were
from Mexico, up from 4.7 million in 2000.
Los Angeles County
DHS does not offer estimates of 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
to help estimate the illegal immigrant population in individual
counties and cities. The Almanac estimates that
Los Angeles County was home to 762,000 illegal immigrants in 2009.
Even if we were to use the 6.8 percent
of California's population being illegal immigrants as a broadly
applied percentage for each California county,
we would come to an estimate of 704,000 illegal immigrants in Los
Angeles County. The Almanac further
estimates that about 382,000 illegal immigrants live within the area
encompassed by the Los Angeles Unified
School District (total illegal immigrant population--adults and
minors) including East Los Angeles and South
Gate, 36,000 illegal immigrants living in the
area encompassed by the Long Beach School District, 24,000
living the
area encompassed by the Compton
School District, 21,000 living in the area encompassed by the
Pomona
School District, 19,000 living in the
area encompassed by the Montebello School District, and
12,000 living
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.
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