Comment on Exclusive | Texas migrant buses to NYC come to a halt — but hundreds of border-crossers are still arriving each week

rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re off by a couple orders of magnitude, the number of illegal entries into the us is near 8 million a year.

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  • Nomecks@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    pewresearch.org/…/what-we-know-about-unauthorized…

    How can you even post something so patently false. Like how does 8 million a year not raise flags with you?

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    • jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      factcheck.org/…/breaking-down-the-immigration-fig…

      The figures used by Haley, DeSantis and Cotton — 8 million or 10 million — are totals of all migrant encounters at the border plus gotaways, and, in Cotton’s case, encounters at the northern border, coastal borders and airports.

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      • Nomecks@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ah, so made up bullshit. Got it.

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  • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That sounds high. How much of that is transient seasonal labour?

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