• ORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        12 hours ago

        God damn it. Why are you all who aren’t getting it so blind? She’s not mistaking the numbers. She’s calling us all illegal as a pejorative. She’s equating us all to illegal, whether we are or not.

        Stop being so pedantic and start opening your eyes. Compare this to the only metric we can really use: WWII. They’re opening concentration camps.

        Do I really have to spell it out any clearer?

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          12 hours ago

          I can see what she’s doing, but I don’t know off the top of my head if there is anyone actually claiming that figure.

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            11 hours ago

            but I don’t know off the top of my head if there is anyone actually claiming that figure.

            65m? Nobody is that I’m aware of except Laura Loomer apparently. Here’s a study from 2016 though.

            https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/yale-study-finds-twice-as-many-undocumented-immigrants-as-previous-estimates

            The numbers that Yale researchers came up with was 22.1million, then tweaked parameters to be more conservative and came up with 16.7million.

            Keep in mind this was 2016… border crossings definitely spiked during Biden’s time. But not enough to even get 22.1 million to 65 million. That’s too crazy.

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              10 hours ago

              Yeah. I looked it up. That’s why I made the post with the credible numbers. The point about the crime rate is one of the criticisms of that Yale study, which I thought was neat.

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      21 hours ago

      So nearly 20% of people living in the United states are illegal aliens? Is what what she’s claiming?

      This is what happens when the president goes on TV and says “millions and millions of people are pouring into the country every day” and nobody pushes back on that. They start to think it’s actually true and not just massive hyperbole from a known serial liar.