Four New Immigration Reports.

1. Pew Hispanic Center has Oregon and Oregon county 2008 Hispanic population/demographic profiles HERE, can also be downloaded in Excel spreadsheet and PDF formats. (Includes income, poverty and home ownership rates, but only at state level).
2. Pew Hispanic Center report, U.S. Unauthorized Immigration Flows Are Down Sharply Since Mid-Decade, is HERE. 
3.  Homeland Security has 2009 Immigration Statistics Yearbook HERE. 
4. Urban Institute has report, Young Children of Immigrants, HERE.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

Homeland Security: 1 Million Reduction in Unauthorized U.S. Immigrants, 2007-2009.

Report is HERE.

DHS estimates that the unauthorized immigrant population living in the United States decreased to 10.8 million in January 2009 from 11.6 million in January 2008. Between 2000 and 2009, the unauthorized population grew by 27 percent. Of all unauthorized immigrants living in the United States in 2009, 63 percent entered before 2000, and 62 percent were from Mexico.Between 2000 and 2007, the unauthorized population grew by 3.3 million from 8.5 million to 11.8 million. The number of unauthorized residents declined by 1.0 million between 2007 and 2009, coincident with the U.S. economic downturn. The overall annual average increase in the unauthorized population during the 2000-2009 period was 250,000.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.