(08-27-2024, 04:05 PM)Sneakers Wrote:

(08-27-2024, 02:14 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: Where Does Illegal Immigration Mostly Occur? Here's What The Data Tell Us : NPR

AP FACT CHECK: Visa overstays outpace border crossings | AP News

Illegal immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

"Between 2007-2018, visa overstays have accounted for a larger share of the growth in the illegal immigrant population than illegal border crossings"

Modes of Entry for the Unauthorized Migrant Population | Pew Research Center

Some of these sources say it's about half, one says it's slightly less than half, and the others say it's more than half.  Regardless, to control illegal immigration, we need to do a lot more than just close the Mexican border.  Like I said, closing the Mexican border will not in itself solve the illegal immigration problem.  Somewhere around half of the illegal immigrants in the US came in legally and didn't leave.  

C,mon, you're smarter than this.

1st article published 1/10/2019 (with 2017 stats)

2nd article published 1/3/2019 (cites stats from 2000-2017)

Wikipedia quote most recent data 6 years out of date

4th article published (wait for it) 5/22/2006 (data dates back to Reagan's first term)

Your "research" contains no data from the Biden administration, making it obsolete and irrelevant.  Forget outdated historical percentages because that's not the world we're living in today and focus on the hard numbers.  How many migrants have entered the country illegally in the last four years?