Share of unauthorized farmworkers declining in US

The share of the farmworkers hired to plant and harvest crops who were immigrants without legal authorization to work in the U.S. grew from roughly 14% in 1991 to almost 55% in 2001. By 2022, it had declined to about 40%.

Area chart showing that the share of unauthorized immigrant farm workers grew through 2000 and has since become smaller.
Values for each year are three-year moving averages to smooth fluctuations. This data was derived from the U.S. Labor Department's National Agricultural Workers Survey.
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