Report shows Oklahoma's illegal immigrant numbers don't follow national down trend

 
BY VALLERY BROWN
Published: September 2, 2010

A report from the Pew Hispanic Center estimates the number of illegal immigrants in the country decreased nearly 10 percent since 2007.

But Oklahoma numbers didn't change much. In fact, they appear to have risen from 55,000 in 2008 to 60,000 in 2009. The state population is about 3.6 million.

The report's authors said the increase falls within the study's margin of error and could be a result of sampling ...


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