Posted on 06/12/2025 10:05:08 AM PDT by thegagline
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Will Cain Show,” former Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz stated that he would put the estimated population of illegal immigrants in the U.S. as “much higher than 20 million people.”
Host Will Cain asked, “I’ve seen varying figures. The one that’s always quoted is something like 20 million illegal immigrants in the United States. … Do you have any sense, how big is the population of illegal immigrants in the United States?”
Ortiz answered, “I would estimate it’s much higher than 20 million people. When you think about, just even over the last ten years, how many folks that actually got away from the Border Patrol, and then those unknown gotaway numbers, that we [were] never able to manage because the Border Patrol agents were conducting other duties outside of their enforcement duties. And so, what we’ve seen over the last five, six years, I think is really just a telltale sign of what happened over the last 20 years. I can remember when I was a young agent in southern California in the early 1990s, there were droves of people walking up the interstates day in and day out. And those are those populations that have embedded in southern California. 1992, during the L.A. riots, we had to send Border Patrol agents up to L.A. to help support the men and women up there, and what that does is create this environment along the border where [you] diminish security both at the border and in these communities along the southwest border.”
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keep in mind that Alejandro Mayorkas, the former Secretary of Homeland Security, was a board member Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. This is from their website
Ever since the 1980s, politicians have known that the only way to really stop illegal immigration is to have a serious program to impose significant fines on employers. That will never happen so we’re stuck rounding up literally tens of millions of people to send back. Then they come over again and we start over again.
Thanks for admitting what many of us already knew.
Or maybe you’re just laughing at us.
He’s probably right. Thanks to the administration under which he served.
If lardass considers those street tacos we’re seeing burning down police cars, burning buildings, painting their crap graffiti all over the place while burning American flags and waving their red white and green fag flags, and putting BLM looters to shame, “REFUGEES”, it could be that the ho may want to lay off the drugs for a while.
Probably 60 million.
But Congress is only funding the expulsion of 1 million a year and Trump is already revealing that he’s not going to do mass deportations at all.
Refugees my ass. Refugees don’t come in and scrouge off of the texpayers while trying to take over a country that doesn’t belong to their mangy butts. Fatso may want to get a job.
Time will tell if we’re playing the same game again. Something tells me we aren’t this time around.
NOT News.....
thank you captian obvious...
BTW there is probably closer to 2 million in LA.
No poop, Dick Tracy!
It has been over 45 million for many years...
Currenntly, there are about 60-million diseased migrant invaders sucking the economic lifee out of the country...
The official (BS) number has been 11 million ever since 9/11, after which the globalist Jorge Boosh let in God only knows how many more millions. Insultingly, even after Biden’s handlers erased the borders and brought in another 15 mil or so, many in the gov’t-media complex still stick to the 11 mil figure. They’re about 40 to 50 mil short.
The American businesses too often care nothing for the nation but only for quick profit and cheap labor.
JAIL those paying illegal invaders.
It’s an invasion and we’re far behind on expelling them. Our land, our culture, everything under attack.
The globalist and communist battle plan to destroy our nation is gaining much ground.
NOT News”
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This was LONG-KNOWN when I came onto social media, decades ago.
Yep. A multi-pronged approach is needed. In no particular order:
1) Secure the borders, which for the most part Trump has done.
2) Cut off the welfare freebies.
3) Heavily fine and/or jail those who hire illegals.
4) Raids / sweeps. Deport as many as possible.
#2, 3, and 4 encourage self-deportation, saving us tons of time, money, and hassle.
More than 20 million....
ALL counted in the head count for the number of US House of Representatives members. California and others unfairly get extra seats that mean the difference in the control of Congress.
I want them out of that figure.
Either change the head count system or eliminate the illegals. Uh, I guess I mean statistically.
Bad Guy: So you’re a problem solver.
James Bond: No, I’m a problem eliminator.
20 million illegals.
How can we punish the people who did this?
Not Biden, the American people who either voted for the Dems or condoned and enabled this.
he illegal population was way over 20 million before Biden’s open border policy.
Now it’s way over 40 million, and perhaps way over 50 million.
It’s between 60-80 million...
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