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applegrove

(130,551 posts)
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 05:40 PM 4 hrs ago

Where the undocumented are (The two biggest red states, not many in Minnesota)

Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2026-01-18T21:03:04.278Z
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Where the undocumented are (The two biggest red states, not many in Minnesota) (Original Post) applegrove 4 hrs ago OP
California (2.3 million) Texas (2.1 million) Florida (1.6 million) New York (825,000) New Jersey (600,000) Illinois Celerity 4 hrs ago #1
Exactly. surfered 4 hrs ago #2

Celerity

(53,803 posts)
1. California (2.3 million) Texas (2.1 million) Florida (1.6 million) New York (825,000) New Jersey (600,000) Illinois
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 05:48 PM
4 hrs ago

(550,000)

These states have consistently had the most unauthorized immigrants since at least 1980. However, in 2007, California had 1.2 million more unauthorized immigrants than Texas. Today, it has only about 200,000 more.

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2025/08/21/u-s-unauthorized-immigrant-population-reached-a-record-14-million-in-2023/

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