I got that number directly from Rand Paul’s web site.
But you are right no one knows how many illegals are here.
Last year when I was vacationing in Singapore, they know exactly to a person which foreigner is in their country, where do they live, where do they work, and when their 2 year work-visa expires. It is against the law to hire a foreigner without work-visa. Foreign workers in Singapore amount to 57% of the citizen population. We have may be 10% and yet we do not know address of a single illegal. So pathetic.
Even the banana republic of Honduras knows down to a person who can vote and who can work. Because they have a national ID with photo of all citizens. What is this country worried about?
It is all a plot by democrats to increase population of dependents on government checks who will obediently will vote for their benefactors. But what is really disgusting is the GOPe who do nothing about it. AT one time Bush-43 had GOP congress in majority. What did he do? Start another entitlement called Prescription Meds.
Those kinds of things makes me think of the conspiracy theories I used to make fun of.