FIGURE2 As Unauthorized Immi grant Population Growth Has Slowed, Median Length of Residence Has Grown Adult median duration of residence in USS 15 years
Immigration policy debates continue to roil Congress and Washington, with Obama’s recent executive action likely to affect millions of unauthorized immigrants. While the population growth of unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. has stabilized, there’s been a sharp increase in the median length of time they have lived here. The typical unauthorized immigrant adult has now been in the U.S. for nearly 13 years, up from 7.4 years in 1995.
FIGURE2  | As Unauthorized Immi grant Population Growth Has  | Slowed, Median Length of Residence Has Grown  | Adult median duration of residence in USS  | 15 years  | 12. 7  | 10  | 8.6  | 7.4  | 5  | 1998  | 2001  | 2004  | 2007  | 1995  | 2010  | 2013  | Note: 2013 figure is preliminary. Data labels are for 1995, 2007 and 2013.  | methodology. Source: Table A1, derived from Pew Research Centerestimates based on residual  | methodology. applied Ito March Supplements ofthe Current Population Survey for 1995  | 2003 and 2013, and the American Community Survey for 2005-2012 See Methodology.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 