What is the current population of Mexicans in the United States?

Question

I'm doing a homework assignment for my Spanish class and I need to know how many Mexicans there are currently in the United States. I also need to know the number for Kentucky. If you know the answer to this or know a good source I could use please let me know. Thanks.

Answer 1

This site from the U.S. Census Bureau will help with legal immigrants/residents.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/p20-...

For illegal immigrants, no one really knows.

Answer 2

You can't know for sure, with the deportment rate and the immigration rate the number never stays consistant.

But to answer your question, about 107,000,000.

Answer 3

You mean, legally or illegally?

Answer 4

2000 US Census

Hispanic or Latino (of any race) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,305,818 12.5

Mexican. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,640,711 7.3

Puerto Rican. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,406,178 1.2

Cuban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,241,685 0.4

Other Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,017,244 3.6

This does not account for unaccounted for illegals, and the numbers are based as of 2000.