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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: corbe on September 21, 2018, 08:47:13 pm
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Yale, MIT study: 22 million, not 11 million, undocumented immigrants in US
BY RAFAEL BERNAL - 09/21/18 04:38 PM EDT
The undocumented population in the United States could be twice as large as the most commonly-used estimate, according to a research study published Friday in the scientific journal Plos One.
The paper, led by Mohammad M. Fazel-Zarandi, a researcher at Yale and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, estimates there are 22.1 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.
Fazel-Zarandi's study compared inflows and outflows of immigrants as well as demographic data. According to the report, the number of undocumented immigrants could be as low as 16.5 million, or as high as 29.1 million.
“We combined these data using a demographic model that follows a very simple logic,†Edward Kaplan, a co-author of the report, told Yale Insights. “The population today is equal to the initial population plus everyone who came in minus everyone who went out. It’s that simple.â€
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https://thehill.com/latino/407848-yale-mit-study-22-million-not-11-million-undocumented-immigrants-in-us (https://thehill.com/latino/407848-yale-mit-study-22-million-not-11-million-undocumented-immigrants-in-us)
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Sounds good - if they knew who came in and who went out. (Hint, they don't)
But, if they are admitting to this number it makes you wonder what the real number is.
Even if it is 22 million, that's a totally unacceptable number! Good grief.
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SHOCK: Yale Study Estimates Illegal Alien Population Is 22 Million, Not 11 Million As Govt Claims
Chris Menahan
Sep. 22, 2018
The illegal alien population in America is estimated to be larger than the entire population of New York (20 million) or Florida (21 million), according to a shocking new study from Yale.
From Yale.edu:
Immigration is the focus of fierce political and policy debate in the United States. Among the most contentious issues is how the country should address undocumented immigrants. Like a tornado that won't dissipate, arguments have spun around and around for years. At the center lies a fairly stable and largely unquestioned number: 11.3 million undocumented immigrants residing in the U.S. But a paper by three Yale-affiliated researchers suggests all the perceptions and arguments based on that number may have a faulty foundation; the actual population of undocumented immigrants residing in the country is much larger than that, perhaps twice as high, and has been underestimated for decades.
Using mathematical modeling on a range of demographic and immigration operations data, the researchers estimate there are 22.1 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Even using parameters intentionally aimed at producing an extremely conservative estimate, they found a population of 16.7 million undocumented immigrants.
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=59101 (http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=59101)
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22 million?
It probably passed that point ten years ago, or before.
I'd reckon that it's up over 30 million by now...
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