New York has more than 600K ‘undocumented’ immigrants, data shows. Who are they?
Hundreds of asylum seekers line up outside of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on June 6, 2023, in New York City.
By Arya Sundaram
Published Dec 2, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. ET
President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge for mass deportations has cast a new spotlight on the more than 220,000 migrants, mostly asylum-seekers, who have filled New York City shelters in an influx that began two years ago.
But they are just some of the state’s most visible immigrants.
Overall, New York state was home to an estimated 672,000 “undocumented” immigrants in 2022 alone, according to data from the Center for Migration Studies, a prominent think tank that tracks immigrants and their demographics across the country.
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