In the last years the undocumented population in the U.S. has been stable. In 2000, there were around 8.4 million undocumented people, in 2007 was the height reaching 12 million but decreased during the Great Recession. In 2012 were approximately 11.7 million. After that the numbers have stopped. By the end of 2012, they were approximately 11.2 million, and that number remained constant into 2013 with 11.3 million undocumented immigrants (Goodman, 2014). Even Mexico, that represents the largest illegal immigrants population, have decreased in 2012 for instance, 6 million people (52 %) of the undocumented population were from Mexico (Ceneta, 2014). The most of them lived in six states, California (22%), Texas (15%), Florida (8%), New York (7%),
