By the way, just to look around, there are much more than just 11 million illegals here today. I am constantly amazed at the number of people, including Limbaugh and Hannity, who mindlessly parrot that number. It has been out there for 10 years.
As KelleyAnne pointed out nobody knows how many there are.
First define illegal. I’ve had co-workers working on a tourist visa, a student visa, etc. I’ve had co-workers where there are 5 or 10 consultants all using the same ID.
The anti-illegal voices agree that these are illegals. How do you count them?
Many in the 30+ H1b type visas lied, and their employers and client companies lied. We agree that they are illegals who are not being prosecuted.
These are people with visas we can track.
Then there are those with no Visa. How many of them are there? Many of these with no Visa are seasonal workers. They go South in November and return in March. So do we count the number in Summer or in Winter?
Why do we need an exact number anyway?
I live in National City, CA, hard by the Mexican border and just south of downtown San Diego. It’s 66% Hispanic (of course, meaning mostly Mexican). The % who are illegal is not known to me but the sheer number around me everywhere I go reminds me that there are far more than 11 million in country that’s been cited for a decade or more.