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In the first line of the second paragraph she uses the Pew Hispanic number. In the second line of the second paragraph she uses the number 20 million that Pew doesn't use.

She is picking and choosing numbers. This is called dishonesty.

I think you misunderstood the paragraph. Schlafly quotes the Pew Hispanic numbers for the percentage of the workforce ONLY (which they claim is less than 5%). The 20 million is the commonly-used number for the total number of illegal immigrants in this country, which would include those not working at all (children, stay-at-home moms, etc.) Now, the second line of the paragraph may seem to imply that she thinks all 20 million of them work, but it is more likely just a badly-worded sentence. In either case, calling Schlafly a liar for such a trivial thing is definitely unwarranted.

No, if the Pew Hispanic number in the first line is good enough for her, why wouldn't the Pew number be good enough for her in the second line? I'll tell tou why. Exaggeration.

And the 20 million number (it was actually 21 million) was from data of over a year and a quarter (or more) ago.

The number now is probably correctly more like 25 million.