Top 5 Facts About Immigrants You Won’t See in Conservative Media

2. Unauthorized immigrants make up only 3.5% of the population

There are about 11 million people residing in the U.S. that, by our laws, are unauthorized to do so.  As much as Gary Johnson doesn’t like the term illegal immigrant, it is technically correct. And 11 million people is a lot—but in a country of 319 million, it’s a very small portion of the population. About 5.8 million of unauthorized immigrants are from Mexico, making them less than 2% of the population.