Wichita is also home to the Never Trumper Koch and Koch Industries.
How Many Illegals Are in the United States? The Real Number May Shock You
Democrats have been Lying to the American Public for Decades
https://truthovernews.org/p/how-many-illegal-immigrants-are-in
Excerpt:
......Bear Stearns found that in 2005, “the number of illegal immigrants in the United States may be as high as 20 million people”, more than double the official Census Bureau figure. The study rightly observed that “Illegal immigrants work very hard to conceal their identities and successfully avoid being counted” noting that “Census officials and academics underestimate the ingenuity and the efficiency of the communications network among immigrants.”
The Bear Stearns methodology, done for the benefit of its investors rather than political purposes, seems to be based on more trustworthy, quantifiable data.
But we have another data point as well—a Yale Study from 2018. This study, which relied “on a range of demographic and immigration operations data,” found that there were as many as 29 million illegal immigrants, with an estimated mean of 22.1 million in the US in 2018. As the study itself noted, they used an “extremely conservative model” to do “a sanity check on the existing number.”
Like the Bear Stearns study, the Yale researchers acknowledged that “the survey method doesn’t effectively reach a group with incentives to stay undetected.” As one of the authors of the study noted, “What we’re saying is the number has been higher all along.”
Not to be outdone, the Pew Research Study decided to once again provide their own estimates of illegal immigrants—this time for the year 2017. Recall that Pew said there were roughly 11 million illegal immigrants in 2005—using a methodology that could politely be described as questionable.
For 2017, Pew claimed that the number of illegal immigrants in the US had FALLEN from 2005 by half a million—to 10.5 million illegal immigrants. The study purported that illegal immigrants had peaked at 12 million in 2007 and fallen steadily from there.
How did Pew arrive at such a shockingly low, counterintuitive number that contrasts dramatically with the other studies? That question is hard to answer as the methodology used by Pew is somewhat indecipherable—something which Pew referred to as “residual estimation methodology”. But the overall formula they used was laughable.
The number of illegal immigrants was derived by taking the number of foreign-born US residents and then subtracting the “estimated lawful Immigrant population.” In other words, they simply created the numbers. Read the methodology for yourself. It’s astonishing.
Not only can Pew’s 2017 estimate be completely disregarded, the flawed methodology and conclusion also calls into question their 2005 study’s estimate of 11 million illegal immigrants.
Extrapolating between the 2005 Bear Stearns Study and the 2018 Yale Study—which found that the illegal immigrant population was as high as 29 million in 2018 using a model which its authors admit was based on an “extremely conservative” model—it would seem reasonable to say that the illegal immigration population was at least 30 million by 2020—probably higher.
Although the 30 million number is admittedly a rough guess, it’s a conservative guess based on these underlying studies from Bear Stearns and Yale that validate each other.
Joe Biden opened our nation’s borders with a series of Executive Orders that began on Day One of his administration. The flood of illegals into our country began—assisted by billions in NGO funding from Biden’s State Department and USAID.
According to most estimates, there was an influx of nearly 11 million illegals during the four years of the Biden Administration—a number equal to the total number of illegals so frequently quoted by Democrats.
The studies from Bear Stearns and Yale validate each other and conform to what we have been seeing transpire at our borders. We also know that the methodology used in Pew’s 2017 study is highly questionable—so much so that it should be discarded from serious consideration. Does anyone actually believe the number of illegal immigrants in our country declined from 2005 to 2017?
Pick whatever number you like—we think the number of total illegal immigrants is probably in the 40 million range—but we can all agree that the 11 million figure touted by Democrats is utter nonsense. The thing is, they know that it’s nonsense. But then again, they also know that amnesty would provide them with a huge influx to their voting base.