Yes the most I ever heard estimated was 20 million. A lot have gone back home due to the depression. There is no construction work anywhere for one thing. As soon as the economy recovers they will start flooding back into the country. We need to seal the border before that happens.
The sad fact for all of us Americans is that the politicians don’t want to make the illegals go home. GOP and Democrat are wedded to letting them stay. They will wear us all down until finally they will pass this new immigration law that lets most of them stay.
After the politicians agree to let the 11 million stay they will not announce that all of the families of the 11 million will be allowed to immigrate so you will really see about 20-30 million new unskilled, uneducated welfare wannabes’ and new Dem voters in the US. Most of those people will never apply for citizenship as they are happy being Mexican. They will not assimilate in great numbers either.
The border will never ever be secured as big business needs a constant stream of new cheap labor.
Yeah. 70 million to 100 million defies common sense. Unfortunately the left are not the only ones to put out propaganda to sway public opinion. And too many times we conservatives show a severe lack of discernment and critical thinking ability.
These wildly inflated numbers pop up at times. Just don’t stand up to analysis, however.
Nobody knows the exact number, of course, but it’s probably somewhere around 12M.
Mexico just isn’t capable of swamping the US in numbers. Their total population is a fraction of ours at ~120M. Some considerable fraction is of course here. I don’t know if they’re counted in the 120M.
BTW, they no longer have a high fertility rate. It’s at 2.27 now, only slightly above replacement.
Interestingly, they also recently passed the US as the nation with the highest percentage of obese people. A possible explanation for the decline in fertility?