claim: between 2000 and 2010, the illegal immigrant population of texas increased by 60 percent, while california and florida had "no increase."
author: mitt romney
evidence_1: oct 5, 2011 ... as a result, the net increase in the immigrant population was more than 8.8  million over the last decade, from 31.1 million in 2000. while ... states with the  largest numerical increases over the last decade were: california, texas, florida,  new york, new jersey, georgia, virginia, north carolina, maryland, ...
evidence_2: jul 8, 2015 ... the growth of the lep population during this period came largely from increases  in the immigrant lep population. the most dramatic increase occurred during the  1990s as the lep population increased 52 percent. the growth rate then slowed  in the 2000s and the size of the lep population has since ...
evidence_3: apr 20, 2017 ... additionally, the northeast, midwest, and west had increases of between 25  percent and 35 percent during this time period, accounting respectively for .... as  of 2014, 21 percent of the nation's unauthorized population lived in california; 15  percent lived in texas; 8 percent lived in florida; 7 percent lived in ...
evidence_4: apr 5, 2017 ... however, large-scale central american migration is not a new phenomenon.  civil wars, political instability, and economic hardship first drove significant  numbers of central americans northward in the 1980s, when the population from  that region living in the united states more than tripled. despite the end ...
evidence_5: jun 25, 2015 ... the u.s. hispanic population has been a key driver of the country's population  growth since at least 2000. ... county with the highest hispanic population by far  is los angeles county in california (4.9 million), followed by harris county in  texas (1.9 million) and miami-dade county in florida (1.8 million).