If they're illegal how do they know it's really 12 million?? How about 6 million or 24 million?? How do they know "billions" are being spent on illegal immigrants??.(from reliable sources only). I know this issue always heats up around election time.
2007-06-02 16:29:01 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Nick...where I live there are plenty of illegal Asians.....and then Mexicans and some Russians too.
2007-06-02 16:42:04 · update #1
No matter how the Bush administration and Congress act on illegal immigration in the US, any legislation or executive order is unlikely to answer the question: How many immigrants living in the country today are here illegally?
Depending on the source, the numbers range widely - from about 7 million up to 20 million or more.
Nailing down such figures is impossible. Even settling on a ballpark figure is difficult given the official sources: the US Census, apprehensions along the US-Mexico border, and social service agencies. For one thing, illegal immigrants avoid responding to census questionnaires, states a 2005 report by Bear Stearns Asset Management Inc. in New York.
Based on the national census in 2000, the US Census Bureau puts the estimate of illegal immigrants at 8.7 million. As of 2003, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services put the number at 7 million. Since then, United States immigration officials have said the number has grown by as much as 500,000 a year.
2007-06-02 18:09:04 · answer #1 · answered by imback_missme 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A more accurate 'guestamit' would b approx. 20-30 million illegal aliens. The Fed's guess (yrs ago) was about 10-12 million. The Fed's guess 5 million have come across the last couple of years alone - when Bush first mentioned 'amnesty'.
Most people believe it's about a mix of 1000 (terrorists, murderers, rapist, illegal aliens, gang members - I'll let u decide which is which) per day!
Though no one, even illegal aliens, cleary say what's wrong with the countries they come from. Why do people leave their home countries?
2007-06-02 16:40:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Pew Hispanic Center numbers (from the census figures) extrapolate to the 12 million number. This is generally considered conservative because is is assumed that one or two people here illegally probably didn't share this with the census takers.
Bears Sterns estimates it at 20 million, which was a business number for investment purposes, so is probably the best they can do.
Obviously, we can only estimate, from legal figures, then school attendance and population above those numbers, etc.
http://www.immigrationcounters.com/datasource.html
2007-06-02 16:54:19 · answer #3 · answered by DAR 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The Census Bureau sends out a form to every American household. By law, the forms must be filled out correctly, and all information is strictly confidential and only used to gather census information.
The last national census was in 1997. At that time, every household received the form at the same time of year during the same week.
These forms ask questions such as, "How many illegal aliens are living in your household?"
The form asks questions more than once, and in different ways in order to weed out controversial answers.
2007-06-02 17:21:11 · answer #4 · answered by kNOTaLIAwyR 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
12 11 8 24
they pulled this number out of there pie hole like they did in 86 when they said 3 but it was more than 11
2007-06-02 16:35:24 · answer #5 · answered by america8298 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To be honest they really don't.As you most likely know the border is patrolled by officers to assure the border is not invaded.Immigrants pass under or through the border in unguarded areas.The officers catch as many as they can and send them back across.When they get their number per day they put it down.it is similar to stores figuring out when their biggest time of year is and what items the people want except it is what time of year is biggest for people illegally coming through the border and where.Once they get the rate they look and see if their number for that day matches that a year ago and pretty much estimate the rest through past records and predict years to come by looking at how much the immigration rate has increased and how fast.
2007-06-02 16:44:38 · answer #6 · answered by Lindsey C 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
They don't know. Someone used the 12 million number and now everyone repeats it - without referencing a source.
2007-06-02 16:39:36 · answer #7 · answered by Doctor J 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
well i can tell you from personal experience they dont really know how many are here illegally. some are very well hidden. no paper trail whats so ever. so there are probably even more out there then they think.
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2007-06-02 16:39:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I read it's 12 Million UNDOCUMENTED Mexicans.
2007-06-02 16:36:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Nobody knows. My guess is that it's a lot more than we think.
2007-06-02 17:30:16 · answer #10 · answered by Yak Rider 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋