Lime's Polls: Here's some immigration facts

The Department of Homeland Security and other researchers have estimated that 8 in 10 illegal immigrants are from Mexico and Latin America, so the increase in immigrants from these countries is an indication that illegal immigration has begun growing again
Immigrants are 13.3% of the nation's total population — the largest share in 105 years.
A new analysis of monthly Census Bureau data by the Center for Immigration Studies shows that the nation's immigrant population (legal and illegal) hit a record high of 42.1 million in the 2nd quarter of this year — an increase of 1.7 million since the same quarter of 2014. Growth in the immigrant population in the last year was led by a 740,000 increase in the number of Mexican immigrants

In 2013 California was home to about 2.67 million undocumented immigrants. Almost a quarter of the nation’s undocumented immigrants reside in California, where they make up slightly more than 6% of the state’s population
Estimates for California suggest 68% of the state’s undocumented population's Mexican-born
Estimates suggest that 13% of California’s K–12 school children have an undocumented immigrant parent
More undocumented residents (nearly 815,000) live in Los Angeles County than in any other area of the state, followed by Orange County (nearly 250,000), Santa Clara County (more than 180,000), and San Diego County (more than 170,000)
California’s labor force includes about 1.85 million undocumented immigrants—the second-highest statewide share of undocumented workers (9.4%) in the nation, after Nevada (10.2%)

Only 35% of immigrants who arrived in the US between 1985 and 1989 earned incomes above the “low-income” level in 1990. By 2008, 66% of these immigrants earned incomes above the “low-income” level.
Only 55.7% of immigrants who arrived in the US during the 1990s earned incomes above the “low-income” level in 2000. By 2030, 70.3% of these immigrants are likely to earn incomes above the “low-income” level.
In 2013, 18% of business owners in the US were foreign-born. Furthermore, 28% of “Main Street” business owners—those who bring businesses like grocery stores, restaurants, and clothing stores to neighborhoods—were foreign-born.
Immigrants continue to be nearly twice as likely as the native-born to become entrepreneurs, with the rate of new entrepreneurs being 0.52% for immigrants, compared to 0.27% for the native-born.

About 28% of that total was immigrants here illegally, according to the Pew report

Illegal immigrants represented 16.8% of drug trafficking cases, 20% of kidnapping/hostage taking, 74.1% of drug possession, 12.3% of money laundering and 12% of murder convictions

Unauthorized immigrants make up 5.1% of the US labor force. In the US labor force, there was 8.1 million unauthorized immigrants either working or looking for work in 2012. Among the states, Nevada (10%), California (9%), Texas (9%) and New Jersey (8%) had the highest shares of unauthorized immigrants in their labor forces.

These states make up most of where illegal immigrants are living: California 25%, Texas 16%, All the other states are in single digits
In 2000 there were 1.09 million illegal immigrants living in Texas, in 2012 it was 1.83 million illegal immigrants living in Texas which is an increase of nearly 68% in the number of illegal immigrants living in Texas
40% of Brickmasons, blockmasons, and stonemasons are illegal immigrants
37% of Drywall installers, ceiling tile installers and tapers are illegal immigrants

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