Posted on 01/21/2007 5:33:24 PM PST by blam
Where do you get 60 million from? A fifth of the population? Or is that good old exaggeratio italiano?
I think my estimate is conservative actually. Since the 86 amnesty the government itself has estimated that some 10,000 crossed the border each day since then. I suspect the number is much higher, but let's just say that 10,000 is about right. That comes to about 3.6 million a year in my book. Over a period of 20 years that comes to well over 60 million. That is not counting all those that come in on visas and overstay. We can count those because we know they haven't left. The government of course will not tell you it's 60 million. They have been throwing around the 11 to 12 million number for the last ten years. Do they think we're stupid? no one has come to add to that number in the last ten years? I think you know the answer to that. The government would be stupid to declare a higher number. The lower the number they throw out the smaller the problem seems. I did stay that day they taught multiplication in second grade.
I think it has been 10,000 a week. Which is plenty anyway.
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