Flap’s Links and Comments for July 21st on 10:33

These are my links for July 21st from 10:33 to 10:37:

• PPIC Report: Unauthorized Immigrants in California – Estimates for Counties – California has more unauthorized immigrants than any other state, about 2.6 million of the nation’s 11
  million; they make up 7 percent of the total California population and 9 percent of the state’s labor force. For
  decades, unauthorized immigrants have been a part of California: in many industries in the economy and in
  rural and urban communities.
  But recent and comprehensive information about the numbers and location of this population within
  California—at the county and sub-county level—does not exist. That this wide information gap exists is
  doubly surprising given the amount of energy spent and attention paid to this issue by policymakers and the
  public over those same decades.
  This report is the first to use a new source of administrative data at the local level to produce comprehensive
  and systematic sub-state estimates of the unauthorized immigrant population in California.
  We find that unauthorized immigrants live in every county in the state, primarily but not only in highly
  agricultural or highly urban areas. As in the country as a whole, unauthorized workers here reside not just in
  traditional immigrant communities, but have found homes throughout all regions of the state.

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• PPIC Illegal Immigration Report by Hans Johnson and Laura Hill – Despite a recent decline, the number of illegal immigrants in the United
  States remains high, and illegal immigration remains one of the most
  divisive issues in the nation. Illegal immigrants make up about 28 percent
  of all foreign-born U.S. residents and slightly less than 4 percent of the
  nation’s total population. The vast majority of immigrants in California are
  legal residents. But as the state with the most illegal immigrants, California
  has a critical stake in how well this issue is understood. The purpose of
  this At Issue is to provide basic information on illegal immigration and the
  debate surrounding it. Because illegal immigrants are not directly identified in censuses and national surveys, the information provided here is
  based on the best available estimates. These estimates are consistent
  across sources and are regarded by research experts as the most accurate available.
• New studies find California’s illegal immigrant population shrinking – Using the new methodology, Hill and Johnson pegged the state's illegal population at 2.9 million in 2008 (it's since declined slightly) and did a region-by-region breakdown. While Los Angeles County, the state's largest with nearly 10 million people, also has the state's largest number of illegal immigrants, nearly a million, several rural counties have larger illegal proportions.

  Monterey and San Benito counties have the highest concentration at 13.5 percent, the research determined, with Imperial County at 12.8 percent, Napa County at 12 percent and Santa Clara County at 10.2 percent all in double-digits. The smallest illegal populations, proportionately, are in remote mountain counties.

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