Posted on 11/15/2019 12:08:11 AM PST by Windflier
The illegal immigrant population is as high as 29.5 million, far more than the 11 million accepted by experts and the government, according to an explosive new report from three Yale University experts.
“Our results lead us to the conclusion that the widely accepted estimate of 11.3 million undocumented immigrants in the United States is too small. Our model estimates indicate that the true number is likely to be larger, with an estimated 95 percent probability interval ranging from 16.2 to 29.5 million undocumented immigrants,” said their report published by PLOS One, an academic journal.
The authors from Yale School of Management, Mohammad M. Fazel-Zarandi, Jonathan S. Feinstein, Edward H. Kaplan, said the average in their new model is about 22 million, exactly twice the number accepted by the Census Bureau and other experts.
“The mean estimate based on our simulation analysis is 22.1 million, essentially double the current widely accepted estimate,” they wrote.
The estimate considers the flow of illegals differently than other models.
The report, however, was assailed by the Center for Immigration Studies that has long surveyed the population of illegal immigrants and is a proponent of curbing it.
Steven Camarota, the Center's director of research, issued a statement rejecting the Yale numbers.
“The findings are unsupportable. Accepting that there are 22 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. also requires accepting that every Census Bureau survey missed huge numbers of people and that most administrative data from the federal government is woefully incomplete. There is no body of research that corroborates such a claim,” he wrote.
The new report is sure to heat up the debate in Washington over the illegal immigrant population and the costs associated with housing and caring for them.
More propaganda BS from the east-coast birthplace of U.S. communism...
As already suspected by most intelligent Americans, the number has been, at least, about 50-million for the past few years...
This study proves it and the communists are just trying to cover it up with a ridiculously low number like 29.5%... Up from their prior number this year of 11%...
IMHO, at least 25-to-30 percent of these migrant scum will vote in 2020... That is the primary reason for Soros pouring millions into all the DA, State Attorney, and Governor races during the past few years...
It's called, by the communists, a "get out the vote" campaign...
They have been saying 14-20 million illegals for DECADES. It would think a conservative estimate would be around 80 million by now including their illegal spawn.
Yes, liberals never want to mention that statistic do they?
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