“According to a Pew Research report in November, more Mexicans were emigrating from the U.S. than entering.”
Note how the sentence can be understood as the comparison of legal immigration vs. emigration, without taking into account the net effect of illegal immigration at all. I’m going to look at the data.
I got a bridge for sale...
“I’m going to look at the data.”
That net minus immigration from Mexico had been circulating for a while. I’m betting the source numbers are cooked from Obama’s version of border “apprehensions”.