[Joe Hadenuf]

"Illegal immigrant population doubled in NJ during '90s." Doubled! In the most densely populated state in the nation, the number of illegal immigrants had gone from 95,000 to 221,000 between 1990 and 2000. The Immigration and Naturalization Service provided the statistics.

How can this be? I thought all the illegal aliens were in the southwest?

[Black Agnes]

That number is a vast understatement. The 2000 census in NJ was a joke as far as the illegal population. They just claimed 'legality' or failed to comply altogether. I suggest there are that many illegals in Hudson, Essex and Bergen county alone. I lived there...