Statistics

68% of evangelical Christians say that they would support immigration reforms that would both increase border security and establish a process so that immigrants present unlawfully in the U.S. could earn permanent legal status and eventually citizenship if they paid a fine and met other qualifications

Just 1 in 5 evangelical Christians says that they have ever been encouraged by their local church to reach out to immigrants in their community.

Only about half of evangelical Christians (53%) say that they are very familiar with what the Bible says about how to treat immigrants.

The Hebrew word for an immigrant, ger, appears 92 times just in the Old Testament

In 2015, the top country of origin for new immigrants coming into the U.S. was India, with 110,000 people, followed by Mexico (109,000), China (90,000) and Canada (35,000)

In 2015, most immigrants lived in just 20 major metropolitan areas, with the largest populations in New York, Los Angeles and Miami. These top 20 metro areas were home to 27.9 million immigrants, or 65% of the nation’s total. )

Immigrants convicted of a crime made up the minority of deportations in 2015, the most recent year for which statistics by criminal status are available. Of the 333,000 immigrants deported in 2015, some 42% had criminal convictions and 58% were not convicted of a crime. From 2001 to 2015, a majority (60%) of immigrants deported have not been convicted of a crime.

Immigrants are driving overall workforce growth in the U.S. However, immigrants do not form a majority of workers in any industry or occupational group

Undocumented immigrants contribute significantly to state and local taxes, collectively paying an estimated $11.74 billion a year.”

12.1% of the total workforce, were in the U.S. legally; about 8 million, or 5%, entered the country without legal permission or overstayed their visas

(37%) of the refugees who were admitted into the United States in fiscal 2016 were religious minorities in their home countries. Of those, 61% were Christians, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the State Department’s Refugee Processing Center.

Undocumented immigrants nationwide pay on average an estimated 8 percent of their incomes in state and local taxes (this is their effective state and local tax rate). To put this in perspective, the top 1 percent of taxpayers pay an average nationwide effective tax rate of just 5.4 percent.”

Undocumented immigrants in the United States pay $6.9 billion in sales and excise taxes, $3.6 billion in property taxes, and just under $1.1 billion in personal income taxes annually.

Granting legal status to all undocumented immigrants in the United States as part of a comprehensive immigration reform and allowing them to work legally would increase their state and local tax contributions by an estimated $2.1 billion a year

“According to a study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, loss of that segment of the labor force [undocumented immigrant labor] would cost the U.S economy $5 trillion over a decade.”

The U.S. Gross Domestic Product could decrease by 2.6 percent or $434 billion a year if all undocumented workers were removed from the economy

More than six in ten (61%) Americans say immigrants living in the U.S. illegally should be allowed a way to become citizens, provided they meet certain requirements. Roughly one in five (17%) say they would prefer illegal immigrants to be eligible for permanent residency status but not citizenship

Americans overwhelmingly believe immigrants coming to America today generally take jobs that Americans don’t want. Nearly seven in ten (68%) Americans say new immigrants mostly take jobs Americans do not want

“After Arizona passed a series of laws(SB 1070), that state’s undocumented population dropped by 40 percent between 2007 and 2012, which reduced its economy by 2 percent a year and depressed employment by 2.5 percent” “Alabama passed a similar law (HB 56) in 2011, which caused a dramatic slowdown amid a worker shortage that reduced its economy by an estimated $11 billion”

A majority (55%) of young white evangelical Protestants say that newcomers from other countries strengthen American society

There are 488 people groups in the United States and 85 of them are unreached.

Researchers asked evangelicals to list which factor has most influenced their beliefs about immigration. About one in 10 chose the Bible, and only 2 percent named their church…’The sad part of this research on immigration is that American evangelicals are more influenced by the media than by their Bibles and their churches combined.’

There were 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. in 2015

Out of 45 million U.S arrivals by air and sea whose tourist or business visas expired in fiscal 2015, the agency estimates that about 416,500 people were still in the country this year.

“According to a study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, loss of that segment of the labor force would cost the U.S economy $5 trillion over a decade.”

Immigrants made up 13.4% of the nation’s population in 2015 totaling 43.2 million immigrants