Could There Be Twenty Million Illegals In The U.S.?
By D.A. King [Recently by D.A. King: Can Banks Profiteer From Illegal Immigration with Impunity?] Your check is in the mail… Im from the government and I am here to help… Ill call you soon. Most of us accept the above lies as a relatively harmless part of life in our United States. We are so accustomed to hearing them that we regard them as not worth the trouble to correct. But what about this one: There are 8-12 million illegal aliens in the United States. If we accept these figures at face value, we do so at our national peril. I believe that figure underestimated by half. And I think it obvious that many of the patriots involved with immigration reform realize the commonly stated illegal aliens statistics are low. Why we are stuck to 8-12 million as our figure for illegal aliens is hard for me to understand. Perhaps this column will generate the necessary debate to bring the real figures to the front. The official estimate of the illegal alien population has been regularly incre