Consider that a third of the foreign-born population of the US is illegal and those numbers still show that California's "boom" was driven by illegal immigration. If you removed 8.25% of the population from California (the illegals) the state would have had a population increase of 5.35%. Far less than the population increase of 13.1% in the US.
But I'll bet it's worse than that in California, the foreign born population there is probably a lot more than 33% illegal.
I'm glad you aren't like Bayodd, you make the distinction between legal and illegal.
"Az: The major source of growth."
BF: You would have to show me some stats to support that."
Let's see:
8 1/4% of population growth contributable to illegals.
5.35% of population growth attributable to legal residents.
That's 1 1/2 times more illegal than legal population growth. Now, what was that you were saying Ben?