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I frequently hear that that are 12 million illegals in the entire country.

Now, if Florida has 5 million, that means that all of the other states combined have just 7 million. Yeah, right!

The report DOESN'T say "30% of the people in Florida are illegal aliens" (which is where I guess your "5 Million illegals in Florida" would come from). It was that OF ALL THE IMMIGRANTS in Florida, 30% are illegal (and 70% legal).

Also, note that the Center for Immigration Studies is a solidly anti-illegals group (some would say "anti-immigrant" but I would disagree). But they certainly don't have a track record of minimizing the problems caused by illegals. I've looked at the whole study, and it's a pretty sober nd fair analysis.

So, just yelling that it's 50 or 70 or 90% of all "immigrants" (which includes 90-year old italians who have been citizens for 70 years, etc. -- it means ANYONE born in another country, regardless of status as citizen, LPR, or whatever) that are illegal isn't much of an argument.