Not nitpicking here I hope but... That 325 million number is supposed to include all illegal aliens as the census is just estimating people rather than citizens in specific. That’s why a lot of conservatives complain when districts are apportioned. Census data is usually not the source for numbers on illegal aliens for that reason. Upper end estimates for total number of illegal aliens present are currently 9-12 million. While that is a considerable number DACA is only a fraction of those.
Not trying to be argumentative. Let me run this by you.
Reagan’s program signed in 1986 (or there abouts), pretty much cleaned the slate of illegal aliens. 3.5 million signed up, even though Reagan was assured only 1.0 million would.
1990=0
By the 2000 census, there were nine million documented illegal aliens in the United States. This was confirmed with an after Census corrective statement to lock in the estimates.
What they want us to believe, is that 9 million came over in ten years back then, but only 3 million have come over since. Following me?
The rate that had been 900,000 per year for nine years on average, was then supposed to have dropped to less than 176,470 for the next 17 years, if we’re supposed to believe we only have 12 million now.
That’s just preposterous.
Time magazine clocked the yearly crossing at 3.5 million around 2004. Remember, Bush had pushed amnesty hard.
I never bought into that figure, but it was very believable that there were as many as 1.5 to 2.0 million coming over each year.
We had a person who was in a position to know. It was reported that illegal alien apprehensions along the border for one nine month period was 900,000 people. That’s a 1.2 million figure when annualized. The real kicker here was that the border agents claimed they traditionally only caught about 10 out of every 100 coming across the border. Even if you graced them for catching 20 out of 100, that means the 1.2 million figure grows five times. If it truly was 10/100, it grows ten times. Think about that for a minute. These are hard numbers too.
From 2000 to 2010, it’s my take we had AT THE VERY LEAST another ten million (rounding), and perhaps as many as 15-25 million.
Since that time we’ve had another 1-1.5 million coming over every year.
9 million in the 90s.
10 million in the first decade of the 21st Century.
10 million in the second decade up until now.
You tell me what you come up with, and these are very conservative estimates.
12 million here now?
That’s insulting.