Immigration Statistics

The Pew Hispanic Center has estimated that 10 percent of all workers in Arizona's economy are illegal immigrants, a figure that federal officials have called conservative.

Here are a few statistics of the immigration issue, courtesy of www.rapidimmigration.com/usa/

• 12,000,000 - Estimated number of illegal immigrants in the United States today
• 20,000,000 - Estimated shortage of workers by 2026
• 9.5 percent - of foreign-born population in United States (in 2000)
• 250,000-300,000 - Estimated number of illegal immigrants entering the United States each year (according to: www.rapidimmigration.com/usa/)