Someone posted recently about 23% of the school students were foreign (read illegal). Just look at the temporary buildings at most schools.
I live in the DC area and I think eleven million live in the DC area alone.
In Texas, the number of illegals rose dramatically about 10 years ago. Whites are now the minority in Texas. When our kids were in high school, even they would comment on how many Hispanics were suddenly being enrolled. They’d come over to their middle school where I taught and were shocked. That’s how fast it happened. My students could rattle off every drug cartel leader’s name and would tell stories of them every time they’d come back from visiting granny back in Mexico.
This is from a few months ago in Austin - http://keyetv.com/news/local/austin-isd-employee-wife-sentenced-for-smuggling-500-illegal-immigrants-into-us
Whatever the real number, we need to “prioritize” illegals guilty of other crimes, but that’s just a priority. If I was picking up money from the ground, I would prioritize large bills, but I’d still grab every quarter I found.