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Summary
California is the center of President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign for unauthorized immigrants. Immigrant population is now declining in the US
For the first time in more than 50 years, the population of US immigrants is decreasing, with residents born abroad or choosing to leave the country or deported, according to the latest data from the Pew survey Center.
In January 2025, the population of immigrants in the United States exceeded 53.3 million. This number has shrunk from 2.6% to 51.9 million as of June 2025, marking the first decline in the US immigrant population since the 60s.
To put it another way: now 1.4 million less immigrants live in the country just months after the President Donald Trump took over to office, According to the new Pew reportA non -partisan reservoir.
An unprecedented number of immigrants – more than 11 million – arrived in the United States between 2020 and 2025, Pew researchers have found. This included over 3 million in 2023 alone, the largest annual sum ever registered, according to the Pew analysis of government sources.
The unauthorized population of immigrants or those to whom they do not have a full legal permission to be in the United States reached a Register high from 14 million In 2023, they show the data.
The organization has collected and analyzes data from the monthly current surveys of the population of the Census Bureau. The recent tendency to decline in the forecast common population of immigrants in the United States may be in part, as fewer immigrants are involved in the study, researchers say.
California has the biggest share to immigrants in the nation. In 2023, California was home to 11.3 million immigrants or 28.4% of the national amount. Texas had the second largest immigrant population with over 6 million inhabitants born abroad, followed by Florida and New York.
California also has the largest number of unauthorized immigrants, with 2.3 million. The state is primary for Trump’s repression where its administration is Leading raids with a high Los Angeles profile and issuing orders aimed at protecting the state and Benefits for immigrantsS
Earlier this week his administration headed for a State legislation that allows undocumented immigrants to get driving licenses, accusing California politicians of responsibility For a fatal catastrophe in Florida, which is said to have been caused by a half -healing driver who lacks legal status. The driver had a federal work permit.
During the first 100 days of the Second Trump Administration, the president took more than 100 immigration executives, striving to block the arrival of new migrants and refugees at the border, to undress those who have legally entered from their temporary defenses and deport unauthorized immigrants.
Trump has made some of the most significant changes to the US immigration policy in the history of the nation, promising a large -scale deportation campaign with a reported report A goal of 1 million deportations in the first yearS
The Pew survey did not reveal the smallest number of deportations and its report notes that some immigrants may have left the country voluntarily as a result of the repression of the Trump administration. His administration has sent people to Salvadoran’s prison, the prisoners, where prisoners claim to have been tortured. Authorities have abolished people in other countries where they have never lived, such as Panama and South Sudan, a country considered dangerous by the US State Department. Federal Immigration Agents in Los Angeles and other parts of California have aggressively retained immigrants and US citizensThrowing people on the ground and Killer Car windowsS
Pew has found that policy and changes in implementation contribute to the population of immigrants between January and June. Unauthorized border crossings fell to The levels have not been seen since the 60sS Migrant arrests in the US -Mexico border fell to just under 8,000 in July, compared to about 96,000 in December, the last full month of Biden Presidency, according to US government statistics.
This time Trump has focused more efforts to apply inside the country, Lavishly and Monitoring technology To strengthen the border and move border patrol agents away from it.
Inside the United States, most of the immigrants, about 75%, are legal here, the Pew report said.
By 2023, 46% of immigrants were naturalized US citizens. Nearly a quarter were legal permanent residents or “green card holders” and another 4% were legal temporary residents who were allowed to remain in the United States for a limited period of time, usually for work or training.
Other immigrants to the United States fell into the “Unauthorized” category and made up 27% of all US immigrants.
About 40% of unlawful immigrants – about 6 million people – have some form of temporary deportation protection, with some also having permission to legally work in the United States.
Trump’s administration has Cancel these deportation protection and work permissions For about 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, who entered the United States legally.
