US Illegal Immigrant 60% Living More than 10 years.

According to a report published Thursday by the Pew Hispanic Center more than 60 percent of adult illegal immigrants in the U.S. have lived here for at least a decade and nearly half have minor children.

Compared with ten years ago, the long term duration of illegal immigrants has increased. Currently, about 35% of illegal immigrants
adults have been in the U.S. for 15 years or more; in 2000 only about 16% had been in the country for that long, says the report, titled “Unauthorized Immigrants: Length of Residency, Patterns of Parenthood.”

28 percent have been in the country for 10 to 14 years. The percentage of illegal immigrants that ave lived in the country for
fewer than five years has decreased from 32% in 2000 to 15% in 2010. Few of long time illegal immigrants in the U.S. are leaving for their home country.

There are about 10.2 million unauthorized adults living in the country and an additional 1 million children under the age of 18, according to the report.

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Park Sae-jin swatchsjp@ajunews.com