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New York Metro Area Home To 1.2 Million Undocumented Immigrants: Report

The updated Pew count comes as Trump threatens to crack down on "sanctuary cities" that protect immigrants.

By Ciara McCarthy (Patch Staff) -
February 9, 2017 4:57 pm ET


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NEW YORK, NY — The New York metropolitan area is home to nearly 1.2 million of the nation's 11.1 undocumented migrants, according to a report released by the Pew Research Center on Thursday.

As hundreds of "sanctuary" cities and counties throughout the country prepare to spar with President Donald Trump over his hard-line immigration policies, Pew's new report shows the extent to which undocumented immigrants have clustered in the nation's urban areas.

The report relies on population data from 2014. It estimates that 61 percent of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. reside in just 20 metro areas.



The New York metropolitan area — which includes NYC; major cities in New Jersey and Connecticut; and small parts of Pennsylvania — was home to an estimated 1.15 million undocumented people in 2014, more than any other metro area in the U.S., according to Pew.

Pew, a nonpartisan research tank, also found that about 19 percent of all immigrants in the New York metro area are undocumented — one percentage point below the national average. Across the country, about one in four immigrants is undocumented.
 

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