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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Yale study: Illegal immigrant population possibly triple previous estimates

Professors at Yale University have roiled the immigration debate with a new study calculating there are between 16 million and 30 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. — as much as three times more than most demographers figure.

The professors’ model looked at estimates of how many people came illegally, and how many people likely left, and concluded there are a lot more people who arrived than the 11 million suggested by traditional estimates. The model says the most likely figure is double that, at about 22 million.

If true, the numbers would mean U.S. officials have done a poorer job of catching illegal immigrants than imagined, and that one out of every nine people living in the U.S. is here illegally.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

If this surprises you you must have your head in the sand
That's how the illegals pour through the border, like sand
BUILD THE WALL and remove the illegals. Don't separate them send the whole family back then they have nothing to gripe about.

Anonymous said...

You think?

Anonymous said...

that's how the democrats want it. You need an id for everything but to vote. makes no sense to me.