0.002%?
Of millions is a big enough number for all sorts of shenanigans.
“0.002%?”
Uh, not quite.
First, an anectdotal story - a met the brother of a Border Patrol agent a few years ago and asked him what the real story was (we live in San Antonio). He told me that the BP had picked up illegals from 93 different countries “last year” (this was 2008, so he was referring to 2007). I remarked that there weren’t 93 countries south of the border. He said, “of course not. Do you think they all come from there?” I said that it was surprising, and asked where they were coming from. He mentioned that a very healthy percentage were from “southwest Asia” - a noted euphemism for the Arab world.
Now some facts: go to the last page of this document produced by DHS http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/illegal.pdf
You will see that out of 5 million estimated illegals in 1996, some 41,000 were from Pakistan. That, by itself, is about 8/10 of 1%. But note that 764,000 of the 5 million come from “other” countries - and not the big immigrant countries of Mexico, El Salvador, etc.
What are the more recent figures? I don’t know. However, given the very increased hostility to the US in the Moslem world since 2001, and given the obviously open borders, the easiest way to infiltrate in hostiles is over the Mexican border. If it is only 5%, that is a LOT of people. It is certainly far more than the miniscule number that you believe - and remember that only 19 people were needed here to perptrate 9/11.