There was a study sponsored by a Wall Street investment firm several years ago to get an estimate of the illegal alien ‘market’ inside the US.
No political agenda, just a marketing plan. They came up with a figure around 30 million.
The 11 million figure has been offered up for over 20 years. It’s a useful tool for the amnesty lobby to gull the public. It shouldn’t be cited by anyone other than GOP shills.
Believe what you will, surveys and studies and counts and estimates are all over the place. The recession has surely sent probably 5-8 million home in the past four years. 30 million now, meaning near 40 million a few years ago is ludicrous. You probably believed john Lewis and the slave trade sharks, and the 45 million homeless stats during Reagan too.