• General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    14 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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      14 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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        13 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.