Illegal Immigrant Numbers In America Are Far Worse Than We’ve Been Told

Normally, when fraudsters are running a scam where they fudge the numbers or cook the books, they make some minimal effort to hide their tracks. Even the guys in “Office Space” understood the concept of “salami slicing,” meaning they took very small amounts from their employer over time. The number-one goal of a scam artist, other than making money, is avoiding detection. You have to make the lie — whatever it may be — somewhat believable. 

For example, a consultant or a technician who wants to falsify his time-sheet probably wouldn’t claim to have worked exactly 6.5 hours every day, on the dot, for several months. More likely, he’d claim that he worked, say, six hours one day, and seven hours the next. It’s more believable that way. That’s the bare minimum of effort you’d expect, in any event. 

So it’s been fascinating to see how, in the case of one of the biggest scams in American history, precisely zero effort has been made to maintain the ruse. I’m talking about the lie that precisely 11 million illegal aliens — no more, no less — reside in the United States. This is a number that you hear all the time, from both political parties. It’s repeated verbatim on every cable news network. But the number has remained unchanged for more than two decades. It is unquestionably, obviously fraudulent.

Let’s run through the history of this “estimate.” 

Here’s a direct quote from the Pew Research Center, from 20 years ago. “As of March 2005, the undocumented population has reached nearly 11 million including more than 6 million Mexicans.”

Here’s a PBS News report from 2013, eight years later:

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Four years later, Pew again estimated the number of illegals in this country at 11 million: “In 2017, there were 10.5 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S.”

Three years after that estimate, Joe Biden asserted once again that the magic number was 11 million:

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Four years after that interview aired, Biden’s DHS secretary again went on the record, saying there were 11 million illegals in the United States. Watch:

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This is the one figure that never changes, for any reason. Just from a statistical perspective, even if you know absolutely nothing about anything that’s happening in this country, this is obviously a scam. You couldn’t possibly keep any massive population this steady, for so long, in any context.

And of course, if you know anything about Democrats’ open-border policies — or if you’ve noticed that entire neighborhoods have transformed in this country, crime has increased and housing has become extremely expensive — then the numbers become even more absurd. This is a complete farce. It’s intended to obscure just how much demographic replacement has taken place in this country in the past three decades.

And it worked. No one really has any idea how many illegal aliens are in this country. That’s by design.

That’s why, last night, there was a very strong reaction to this story, about the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown. Watch:

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The lede is buried there, so I’ll say it again. There are 55 million “visa holders in the United States,” according to the Trump administration. That’s more than the entire population of the state of California, combined with the population of New York City. It’s a number so high it seems like it can’t possibly be correct.

But even if you account for the possibility that this number includes, say, tourist visas — (including people living abroad), as well as people visiting their family in this country — the number is still far, far too high. There is no justifiable reason whatsoever for 55 million people to hold any kind of visa for entry into the United States. 

For one thing, Visa overstays are common, including for tourist visas. There were something like 800,000 reported overstays in a recent fiscal year. Many of them involved business or tourist visas from countries in Africa, to the point that the Trump administration has begun requiring these people to pay $15,000 bonds before they can arrive in the United States.

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But even if none of these people were ever overstaying their visas, 55 million is still an extraordinarily high figure. There’s no reason to grant anywhere near this number of visas. And it’s yet another very strong indication — as anyone could have surmised — that there are far, far, more than 11 million illegal aliens in this country. And as aggressive as the Trump administration’s deportation efforts have been, they need to intensify much further.

From a political perspective, this wouldn’t be remotely difficult. Every effort by the corporate press to attack the administration for enforcing immigration law has backfired in spectacular fashion.

The latest example comes to us from a woman named “Aimee Cho,” who identifies as a reporter for NBC News. Here’s what she wrote:

“BREAKING: Just saw DC Police + federal agents detain a man on the National Mall. He appeared to try to escape, then was quickly tackled to the ground by several agents + was screaming in Spanish “please, I’m not a criminal, I work here, I want to be with my family.”

She added, “I asked the agents what the man was being charged with, but they didn’t reply. I’ve also reached out to ICE for comment @nbcwashington.”

But of course, she didn’t wait for the reply from ICE. Instead, Aimee Cho posted this video, which had the effect of whipping liberals — particularly liberal women — into an absolute frenzy. Watch:

BREAKING: Just saw DC Police + federal agents detain a man on the National Mall. He appeared to try to escape, then was quickly tackled to the ground by several agents + was screaming in Spanish “please, I’m not a criminal, I work here, I want to be with my family” @nbcwashington pic.twitter.com/56IlXEvYbN

— Aimee Cho (@AimeeCho4) August 20, 2025

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He goes on screaming for a few more minutes before they haul him away. There’s no context whatsoever, beyond the guy’s claims that he’s supposedly an innocent family man, who’s being hauled away to Alligator Alcatraz simply because he’s not white. But for liberal women, no context was necessary. The propaganda had its desired effect. 

Here’s how Fox’s Jessica Tarlov responded for example.

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Tarlov writes: “This doesn’t make D.C. safer. It’ll just make people not come to D.C. The cruelty is the point.”

So all the murdering and carjacking wasn’t preventing people from coming to DC, apparently. Instead, according to Jessica Tarlov — a woman who, again, has no idea why this guy was arrested — the reason people are avoiding D.C. is that they might get randomly “disappeared” by ICE. You could be walking down the street, taking pictures of the Lincoln Memorial, and then — bam, you’re being hauled away.

None of the people who make this claim — including Jessica Tarlov — can point to a single instance in which an American citizen was wrongfully arrested and deported by this administration. The closest example they could come up with is an illegal alien named “Kilmar Abrego Garcia,” the gangster and alleged wife-beater and human trafficker. It’s not exactly a compelling case, but Jessica Tarlov couldn’t help herself.

Neither could Miami Herald “investigative journalist” Julie K. Brown.

Here’s what Brown wrote on social media, in response to that video: “His crying … hits me in the gut. And we will probably never be told who he is, why he was stopped or if he was here illegally.”

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Especially for an investigative journalist, that was a pretty ill-advised tweet.

Here’s the update that Aimee Cho had to append to the video, five hours after she posted it.

“UPDATE: ICE has sent a statement on this man’s detention, saying his name is David Perez-Teofani and that he was arrested in Fairfax County in 2024 and charged with aggravated sexual battery against a minor under 13.”

Well, so much for that narrative. Jessica Tarlov and “investigative journalist” Julie Brown quickly delete their posts. Of course, they didn’t even pretend to learn anything from their humiliation. Apparently, they’re just going to wait for the next video that they can lie about.

What actually happened in this case is that the illegal alien’s charges were dropped by the Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney’s office when the victim and her mother told police that they didn’t want to pursue the case, and stopped communicating with law enforcement. So the man wasn’t exonerated or anything like that. He was arrested for one of the most serious crimes imaginable, on top of the fact that he illegally entered into the United States on three separate occasions.

For the most part, even the dumbest commentators on the Left realized how badly this whole situation was going for them. So they deleted their posts and changed the topic.

But CNN’s Wolf Blitzer did not take that approach. Instead he doubled down, even after DHS’ statement. Watch:

INCREDIBLE: CNN’s Wolf Blitzer laments federal agents detaining a man charged with sex crimes against a minor, saying video of his arrest needed a trigger warning…

“We want to warn our viewers. Some might find this video disturbing….A person with the same name who faced… pic.twitter.com/04sYhSMgTg

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 21, 2025

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So he doesn’t even mention what the charge was. DHS went on record describing the nature of the charge, and Wolf Blitzer doesn’t even mention it. Instead, he goes out of his way to emphasize that the man wasn’t convicted, and strongly implies he’s the victim in this scenario.

No matter how low your standards are for these people, somehow they continue to lower the bar. It’s true that, because the witnesses wouldn’t testify, David Perez-Teofani has not been convicted in a court of law of the crime of molesting a child. And as far as I know, he wasn’t convicted of illegal entry either — although he did have removal orders, and no one’s disputing the fact that he’s an illegal alien. 

But that’s not the relevant standard. When you’re talking about non-citizens, you don’t need to wait until they’re “convicted” of anything. They have no right to be in this country, period. It doesn’t matter what other crimes they commit. But, given that we probably have around 30 million illegals in this country, the administration has to prioritize certain illegals for deportation first. You have to start somewhere. And in that context, it makes complete sense to deport the most dangerous and perverse degenerates as quickly as possible.

It also makes sense, as we discussed earlier this week, for the administration to eliminate as many job opportunities for illegal aliens as they can. That’s another very important way to approach the problem. American truck drivers are far more reliable and less dangerous than foreigners who can’t speak English. And already, it’s clear the administration understands that. Yesterday the secretary of state announced that the U.S. would stop issuing worker visas for commercial truck drivers, after that horrifying crash last week on the Florida Turnpike.

These are the kind of steps that should’ve happened a long time ago. But for more than 20 years, pretty much everyone in authority lied to Americans about the extent of the foreign infiltration of this country. They fed us statistics that were obviously false, knowing that no one would bother to check them. But at this point, the cooked numbers don’t matter anymore. Neither do the fake narratives about random Spanish-speaking men in D.C. being thrown to the alligators, when those men are actually pedophiles.

The real test for this administration — which, to my knowledge, hasn’t happened yet — will come when they publicly defend the forcible deportation of someone who isn’t a depraved child predator, or a mass murderer, or a Somali warlord. We can’t allow those people to stay in this country either. And it would be a massive mistake to “prioritize” the worst offenders, while mostly ignoring the so-called “non-violent” migrants.

We know there are far more than 11 million illegal aliens in this country. That’s abundantly clear. And as difficult as it may be for women like Jessica Tarlov and Julie Brown, every single one of them has to go back to where they came from.