Today’s Arizona Republic, on the front page, says: an, “estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants” are in the U.S. I’ve seen that number a lot and it doesn’t seem to have changed over the last few years. There’s no attribution; we don’t know the source of that number.
The Arizona Republic on Oct. 31 (p. A10) also said that the Border Patrol has caught more than one million illegals annually for at least seven years, and that for every one caught experts say, “two or three make it through.”
Do the math.
Using the lower estimate, if only two evaded capture for each one caught over the last seven years, that’s 14,000,000 right there. I’m pretty sure there were illegals here prior to seven years ago as well. Time to revise that “estimated 12 million” number.
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts.” — Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, (D., NY)