Ep. 190: Estimating the Unauthorized Immigrant Population
From This Week in Immigration by Bipartisan Policy Center
March 11, 2025 · 44 min · Episode 190
About this episode
This episode discusses methodologies for estimating the unauthorized immigrant population and their implications in public policy.
In this week's episode, BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown sits down with Robert Warren from the Center for Migration Studies, Jeffrey Passel from the Pew Research Center, and Jennifer Van Hook from the Migration Policy Institute to discuss methodologies used to estimate the unauthorized immigrant population, the recent trends in those estimates, and how they are used and understood (or misunderstood) in public policy debates. Center for Migration Studies: US Undocumented Population Increased to 11.7 Million in July 2023: Provisional CMS Estimates Derived from CPS Data - https://cmsny.org/us-undocumented-population-increased-in-july-2023-warren-090624/ Pew Research Center: What we know about unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/ MPI: The Unauthorized Immigrant Population Expands amid Record U.S.-Mexico Border Arrivals - https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/unauthorized-immigrant-population-mid-2023
People in this episode
Host: Theresa Cardinal Brown
Guests: Robert Warren, Jeffrey Passel, Jennifer Van Hook
Topics covered
- unauthorized immigrant population
- estimation methodologies
- public policy debates
- recent trends
- immigration statistics
Keywords
- unauthorized immigrants
- population estimates
- immigration trends
- public policy
- CPS data
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Center for Migration Studies, Pew Research Center, Migration Policy Institute
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