The illegal alien problem is getting better...not worse (all without Trump's beloved wall).
5 facts about illegal immigration in the U.S.
Pew Research Center's numbers are WAAAAY off the mark. Actually, illegal alien population is about 30 million, and maybe even more than that. PRC numbers are based on Census questionnaires, which illegals don't reply to.
Bear-Stearns study is far more accurate.
Yale study finds U.S. illegal immigrant population ‘substantially larger’ than previous estimates
And how could anyone claim that illegal immigration is decreasing when we currently have multiple caravans coming to the US border. With the caravans we have a far larger illegal alien problem than ever before.
First of all, the 11 million figure you give comes from Pew. But it could just as easily have come from DHS, CIS, the Urban Institute, or the Current Population Survey. They all use the same source - US Census data.
RED FLAG..
Problem is the Census methodology is fundamentally flawed. To count illegals, they subtract the number of legal immigrants (estimated from those who answered surveys), from the number of foreign born residents (also estimated from those who answered surveys).
Plenty of reason to believe the census #s are wrong. Two analysts from Bear Stearns (Robert Justich and Betty Ng), in 2005, warned the census data undercounted the illegal population by about half.
Justich and NG discounted the census data because it
relied on illegal aliens answering surveys. As Justich told the Wall St. Journal,
"the assumption that illegal people will fill out a census form, is the most ridiculous concept I've ever heard of."
People who have left their families, paid money to smugglers, traveled thousands of miles, and broken American law to enter this country, don't have much incentive to fill out questionnaires from the US government.
Dispensing with the census' figures, the Bear Sterns analysts looked at remittances$$ from the US to Mexico. These are electronic money transfers recorded by a nation's central bank - not surveys of people who don't want to answer surveys. The analysts found that while the # of Mexicans living in the US was supposed to have grown by only 56% from1995 to 2003, remittances from the US to Mexico grew by almost 200%. even as the median weekly wage increased by just 10%.
The Bear Stearns report also compared the
growth in housing permits and
school enrollment with official population figures, in various immigrant enclaves. The combined population growth of Brunswick, Elizabeth, and Newark NJ, the census claimed was only 5.6% between 1990 and 2003. But housing permits in those immigrant bastions grew by more than 600%, and 80% of the new permits were for multiple dwellings.
In 2006, 2 Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalists, Donald Bartlett & James B. Steele, did a study for
TIME magazine, and concluded that the number of illegal aliens coming into the US that year would be 3 million. Every major news outlet said it was 1 million (with the number miraculously going back down to 11 million by 2007).
Combining the numbers of all of these analysts, we easily get a number of 30 million, if not much more by 2018.
Robert Justice and Betty Ng, "The Underground Labor Force IS Rising to the Surface
, Bear Stearns Asset Management , January 3, 2005,
http://www.steinreport/BearStearnsStudy.pdf
In Counting Illegal Immigrants, Certain Assumptions Apply
Illegal Aliens: Who Left the Door Open?
Ann Coulter,
Adios America!, 2015, pg. 71-75.
