The actual number of illegal aliens appears to be far larger than previously understood
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/09/the_actual_number_of_illegal_immigrants_appears_to_be_far_larger_than_previously_understood.html
The most common number offered by our media for the number of people living here illegally seems to be about 12 million. Factcheck.org, published by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, purporting to be a neutral and objective source, cites DHS estimates as well as NGOs:
There were 12.1 million immigrants [sic] living in the country illegally as of January 2014, according to the most recent estimate from the Department of Homeland Security. The estimates from two independent groups are similar: The Pew Research Center estimates the number at 11.1 million in 2014, and the Center for Migration Studies says there were 11 million people in 2015 living in the U.S. illegally (see Table 1 in the full report).
That would be about 3.5 percent to 3.8 percent of the total U.S. population in 2014.
To be fair, measuring illegal activity is inherently difficult. But the striking thing is that these established authoritative sources pretty much agree on the ballpark. Normally, that establishes a high level of confidence.
But then, how do we square 12 million with the newly released data from the Immigration Reform Law Institute? Paul Bedard writes in the Washington Examiner:
Nearly 40 million Social Security numbers have been stolen and used by illegal immigrants [sic] and others to get work, according to agency records obtained by an immigration reform group.
The Immigration Reform Law Institute said that from 2012 to 2016 there were "39 million instances where names and Social Security numbers on W-2 tax forms did not match the corresponding Social Security records."
The group said that there is a "thriving black market" used by illegal immigrants [sic] to get Social Security numbers needed to get a job.
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Their report draws attention to a move by former President Barack Obama to stop sending so-called "no match" letters to employers notifying them that numbers used by employees on the wage forms do not match their identity.
The change followed the president's decision to approve amnesty for some 700,000 younger immigrants [sic] let into the U.S. under his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Some of those have been dubbed "dreamers."
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