[Sabertooth]

did the census miss that badly?

Yep.

Even the "official" numbers on Illegals are rising as fast as Gray Davis' budget deficit.

And consider this: Doesn't the Federal Government have a conflict of interest in being trusted to report the actual size of the Illegal population, given their complete bipartisan failure to deal with the foreign scofflaws?

[TheHeterodoxConservative]

I'm not trying to sound argumentative, but where does your estimate come from? In other words, where's a more reliable source of information? I'm sure that people concerned about the problem have done some sort of independent analysis. Do you have any links?