Most children living with unauthorized immigrant parents living are born in the U.S. In millions
Most unauthorized immigrants live with spouses, partners, their children or other relatives. In 2016, 5.6 million children younger than 18 were living with unauthorized immigrant parents.5 Of these, 675,000 were unauthorized immigrants themselves, a number that has fallen by half since 2007. The other 5 million children were born in the U.S., a number that rose from 4.5 million in 2007. The number of U.S.-born children leveled off in recent years as births to unauthorized immigrants have dipped and an increasing number of children of unauthorized immigrants have aged into adulthood.
Most children living with unauthorized  | immigrant parents living are born in the U.S.  | In millions  | 5.0 5.0  | 4.6  | 4.5  | 0-0  | U.S. born  | 4.9  | 3.8  | 2.2  | Unauthorized immigrant  | 1.3  | 0.8 0.7  | 1.5  | 1.6  | 1.5  | a  | 1.1  | 0.9  | 0.7  | 1995  | 2000  | 2005  | 2010  | 2014 2016  | Note: More than 99% of the ULS -born and unauthorized immigrant  | children live with their unauthorized immigrant parents or live in  | households where the only adult(s) are a related una uthorized  | immigrant ora related couple where one or both spouses) partners  | are una uthorized immigrants. See Methodology for details.  | Source: Pew Research See Center Methodology estimates based on augmented US  | Census Bureau data See Methodology for details.  | *ULS. Decade" Una uthorized Immigrant Total Dips to Lowest Level ina  | Decade"  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 