Man it’s nearly impossible to find an unbiased source on this. I even found one with a .gov extension, but then saw it was a Republican anti immigration site in fine print.
Best I could do was one from a news station in Arizona that has citations within it. I did not go so far as to check each citation in the article.
Anyway, it’s from December 2023 which maaaaaaybe would be recent enough for your antagonist and it says that of ALL illegal immigrants currently living in the US, 40% of them entered on a visa and overstayed.
Another thing I kept seeing on all sources of immigration was the word “encounter”
When we hear of many millions of immigrants each (insert opinionated time period here - year, month, week, whatever), it uses the word encounter rather than the word crossing, and especially not the word presently residing.
I’m replying to you with this rather than your antagonist, because I feel it would be useless to say anything at all, regardless of recency or veracity, to the latter.
Yeah. This was the same issue I was having. And it’s frustrating as hell when politicians are running on “millions of illegals” and we don’t have anywhere close to an accurate number. The 2019 article seemed the most recent actually accurate study.
Man it’s nearly impossible to find an unbiased source on this. I even found one with a .gov extension, but then saw it was a Republican anti immigration site in fine print.
Best I could do was one from a news station in Arizona that has citations within it. I did not go so far as to check each citation in the article.
Anyway, it’s from December 2023 which maaaaaaybe would be recent enough for your antagonist and it says that of ALL illegal immigrants currently living in the US, 40% of them entered on a visa and overstayed.
Another thing I kept seeing on all sources of immigration was the word “encounter”
When we hear of many millions of immigrants each (insert opinionated time period here - year, month, week, whatever), it uses the word encounter rather than the word crossing, and especially not the word presently residing.
I’m replying to you with this rather than your antagonist, because I feel it would be useless to say anything at all, regardless of recency or veracity, to the latter.
Yeah. This was the same issue I was having. And it’s frustrating as hell when politicians are running on “millions of illegals” and we don’t have anywhere close to an accurate number. The 2019 article seemed the most recent actually accurate study.