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A Publication of Florida's Adult and
Family Literacy Resource Center
March 2009
New Estimates Continued...
The Center’s findings are based on data taken from both the 2000 census and the March Current Population Surveys for the years since 2000. The census bureau does not ask people their immigration status, thus the estimations are the results of the estimated legal population being subtracted from the total foreign-born population. The outcome of these two subtracted numbers is the number used for the unauthorized immigrant population. The Pew Hispanic Center indicates that these are estimates and do have a considerable margin of error.
The most obvious and prevalent reason for the net growth rate decline is the slowdown of U.S. economic growth. Other influencing factors in the slowdown included that the economic growth of Mexico and other Latin American countries has become more stable as well as the fact that there is a heightened focus on enforcement of immigration laws with the United States.
Go to http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/94.pdf to view the report in its entirety or visits the Center’s homepage http://pewhispanic.org/ for more information.