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Have you ever noticed thatnobody in Washington can agree on a number? You would think that people with functioning calculators could come to similar math- based conclusions once in a while, but not in D.C. Try getting a consensus on unemployment projections or consumer confidence levels frommembers of Congress. You can't even get a straight answer on how many troops will be occupying the Capitol three months from now, and that's something they directly control.

With all of that in mind, it's pretty amazing to watch virtually everyone in Washington, Republican and Democrat, repeat precisely the same number when discussingone of the most critical problems that we face. That number is 11 million. That number, they tell us, is exactly how many foreign nationals currently live here illegally.

It's almost like a script now. People have different views on what we ought to do about illegal immigrants, but nobody questions how many there are. There are 11 million, period.

A month before last year's presidential election, Joe Biden promised: "Within 100 days, I'm going to send to the United States Congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people, and all of those so-called Dreamers, those DACA kids, they're going to be immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country and put on a path to citizenship."

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Joe Biden is in the White House now. His party controls everything, so he can make good on that promise and he plans to do so. In fact, it's one of the very first things he's doing. How's it going to affect you?

First of all, it's kind of a big deal. All but seven U.S. states have fewer than 11 million people living in them. We're not just talking aboutWyoming and South Dakota, but states likeVirginia, Georgia, Michigan, New Jersey, Massachusetts and so on.What will this cost?It's kind of hard to know the real answer, but if you're trying to put the math together, be sure to factor in the free health care.

It doesn'ttake an economist to know that giving free "health care" to11 million new people could easily capsize theU.S. economy. As Milton Friedman once wisely noted, you can have a welfare state or you can have open borders, but you cannot have both. However, we're getting both. We may, in fact, be getting a great deal more than that.

We all assume that 11 million is the real number of illegal aliens in this country, but is it? No, it's not. In fact, it's a totally fake numberwhich people endlessly repeat eitherbecause they are badly informed or dishonest. They've been repeating that number formore than 15 years.

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In 2005, the Pew Research Center announced that "the undocumented population has reached nearly 11 million." The weird thing is that 12 years later, Pew had roughly the same estimate. That should have been a tell that the number itself was fraudulent.

In 2018, the Department of Homeland Security, which exists to track numbers like these, played along with it and put the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. at somewhere around 12 million. Yeah, right. In April 2019, then-DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen admitted on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that "we do not know" exactly how many people are living in this country illegally.

So what's going on here? Here's what we found:Pretty much everybody who talks about immigration is using the Census Bureau's annual American Community Survey to estimate how many illegal immigrants live in this country. The Census Bureau tallies up the number of foreign-born people they've identified who live in this country, then estimate or subtract the number of foreign-born people known to be in the U.S. legally. Bingo, 11 million.

The problem is this method of calculation is bound to be wrong. Many illegal immigrants don't respond to census takers. Why would they say they're here illegally? Robert Groves, the former director of the Census Bureau, summed up the reality this way: "There isno magic bullet that anyone has discovered to count this population [illegal immigrants]. This is really very difficult to estimate."

Now, many of the studies projectingthat only 11 million illegal immigrants live here, have, in fact, acknowledged that the census is not perfect. Yet strangely, they assumed that it was pretty close to perfect. Specifically, they operated on the assumption that only about 10%of illegal immigrants weren't being captured by census takers. Put another way, their models assumed that 90%of the people living in this country illegally were willing to cooperate with census takers.

Now, that seems like a ridiculous assumption, but there's a reason. Ann Coulter explains that reason in her book "Adios America," which even now is one of the few serious explorations of this topic. It turns out that researchers have been relying on a 2001studyfunded by the University of California. That survey asked829 people born in Mexico and living in Los Angeleswhether they responded to census interviews. The majority of them said yes.

Here's the amazing thing. Nearly 40%of those households refused to answer the survey at all. In other words, all the assumptions that there are 11 million illegal immigrants in this country are based on a separate assumption: That 90%of illegal immigrants are willing to cooperate with the Census Bureau. That assumption, in turn, is based on a survey showing nearly half of all illegal immigrants refused to fill out the survey. This is bad math at the very least.

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In 2018, researchers at Yale and MIT decided to update the methodology using "operational data" such as deportations, visa overstays, demographic data, death rates, immigration rates, etc. They combined them and used a mathematical model to establish a range of estimates.

How many people live here illegally? Here's what they found: "After running 1,000,000 simulations of the model, the researchers' 95%probability range is 16 million to 29 million,with 22.1 millionas the mean."

In other words, the estimates that we've been relying on for decadescould possibly --in fact, may likely -- be off by more than 18 million people. There could easily be 30 million (or more) illegal immigrants living in this country. That's more people thanlive in the entire state of Texas.

So how would amnesty for that many people affect our "democracy"? In effect, it would end our democracy. People who have lived here all of their lives, paid taxes, followed the rules, been good citizens, would find their votes diluted to the point of irrelevance. (It would mean an instantaneous end to African-American political power, for one thing.) It would also ensure permanent rule by the Democratic Party, which is the point of it.

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By the way, back in 2005, Bear Stearns, one of the most prominent victims of the 2008 financial collapse, estimated the total illegal immigrant population to be as high as 20 million. Here was their top-line finding in that study:

"Our research has identified significant evidence that the census estimates of undocumented immigrants may be capturing as little as half of the total undocumented population. This gross undercounting is a serious accounting issue which could ultimately lead to government policy errors in the future."

"Government policy errors"likegiving amnesty to 11 million who are actually 30 million? Yeah, that could qualify.

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The Bear Stearns study did not rely on census data. Instead, they looked at bank transfers, remittances from the U.S. to Mexico. They wanted to capture the number of payments from illegal aliens living here to their families back home. Here's what they found:

"The rate of increase in remittances far exceeds the increases in Mexicans residing in the U.S. and their wage growth. Between 1995 and 2003, the official tally of Mexicans has climbed 56% and median weekly wage income has increased by 10%. Yet total remittances jumped 199%"

There was no obvious explanation for this disparity, apart from a lot more illegal immigration than the authorities were acknowledging.

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Theresearchers at Bear Stearns looked at other indicators, tooFor example, they analyzed data on school enrollment and housing permit applications for multiple dwellings. In one instance, they found that some towns in New Jersey reported a 5-6% growth in population size. At thesame time, requests for housing permits were increasing by 600%.

"In major immigrant gateway cities," the study found, "the influx of immigrants has led to overcrowded dwellings and a housing boom unexplained by official population growth."

That was all 16 years ago, and in 2021, the party in charge is still assuring us that the number of illegal immigrants in this country has somehow declined by up to 10 million people.How insulting is that to even to float that idea? Consider everything that has happened since 2006: The amnesty for the so-called "Dreamers," the promises of mass amnesty, the endless caravans.

The 11 million number is, above all, a lie; one of the more obvious lies ever told. We're not social scientists, and it took about an hour for us to find this out.

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Joe Biden knows this. In the summer of 2019, he more or less admitted the point of amnesty: To import as many new Democratic voters as possible.

BIDEN: We could afford to take, in a heartbeat, another two million people. The idea that a country of 330 million people cannot absorb people who are in desperate need and who are justifiably fleeing oppression is absolutely bizarre, absolutely bizarre. I would also move to increase the total number of immigrants able to come to the United States.

Of course, they won'ttell you the total number. They want you to believe it's 11 million, always and forever. By the time you figure out they're lying to you, it'll be too late to do anything about it, obviously.

This article is adapted from Tucker Carlson's opening commentary on the Feb. 24, 2021 edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

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Days after President Biden took office, the Bureau of Land Management put a scenic landscape of a winding river at the top of its website, which during the previous administration had featured a photograph of a huge wall of coal.

At the Department of Homeland Security, the phrase illegal alien is being replaced with noncitizen. The Interior Department now makes sure that mentions of its stakeholders include Tribal people (with a capital T as preferred by Native Americans, it said). The most unpopular two words in the Trump lexicon climate change are once again appearing on government websites and in documents; officials at the Environmental Protection Agency have even begun using the hashtag #climatecrisis on Twitter.

And across the government, L.G.B.T.Q. references are popping up everywhere. Visitors to the White House website are now asked whether they want to provide their pronouns when they fill out a contact form: she/her, he/him or they/them.

It is all part of a concerted effort by the Biden administration to rebrand the government after four years of President Donald J. Trump, in part by stripping away the language and imagery that represented his anti-immigration, anti-science and anti-gay rights policies and replacing them with words and pictures that are more inclusive and better match the current presidents sensibilities.

Biden is trying to reclaim the vision of America that was there during the Obama administration, a vision that was much more diverse, much more religiously tolerant, much more tolerant of different kinds of gender dispositions and gender presentations, said Norma Mendoza-Denton, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an author of Language in the Trump Era: Scandals and Emergencies.

Ms. Mendoza-Denton said Mr. Trump sought to remake reality through language during a tumultuous tenure.

Now, officials in Mr. Bidens administration are using Mr. Trumps own tactics to erase the words his predecessor used and return to ones that had been banished.

The president has been clear to all of us words matter, tone matters and civility matters, said Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary. And bringing the country together, getting back our seat at the global table means turning the page from the actions but also the divisive and far too often xenophobic language of the last administration.

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By talking about climate change but not illegal aliens, the Biden administration is changing the language of government. - The New York Times

A healthcare worker receives a dose of the Moderna vaccine in San Diego, Calif., December 22, 2020.(Bing Guan/Reuters)

President Biden said Friday that illegal immigrants in the U.S. should be able to receive the COVID-19 vaccine without fear of being targeted by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

I want to make sure they are able to get vaccinated and so theyre protected from COVID without the ICE or anyone interfering, Biden said in an interview with Univision during a visit to a vaccination site in Texas. They should . . . not be arrested for showing for being able to get a vaccination.

The Department of Homeland Security announced earlier this month that ICE would not conduct enforcement activities at or near vaccination sites.

It is a moral and public health imperative to ensure that all individuals residing in the United States have access to the vaccine, the agency said in a statement then. DHS is committed to ensuring that every individual who needs a vaccine can get one, regardless of their immigration status.

The Biden administration has focused on creating equity in its vaccine distribution plans, working to target underserved communities as well as illegal immigrants.

We do feel, as an administration, that ensuring that all people in the United States, undocumented immigrants as well, of course, should receive access to a vaccine because that one is morally right but also ensures that people in the country are also safe, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said last month.

Republican lawmakers in January sought to add a stipulation to Bidens $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan that would havemoved undocumented immigrants to the back of the line for vaccinations.

No vaccines for illegal immigrants jumping to the head of the line to get vaccines, Representative Jeff Duncan (R., S.C.), the amendments sponsor, said when introducing the amendment. Theyve done it once, by jumping to the head of the line to enter this country, and theyll do it again.

However, Democrats have argued that illegal immigrants hold jobs as essential workers across the country and withholding the shots from a swath of public-facing workers would not help slow the spread of the virus.

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The Tunisian Ministry of the Interior announced on Friday that the National Guard's naval units had managed to thwart three illegal immigration attempts made by 27 people, who were heading for Italy.

This came in a statement issued by the ministry, of which Anadolu Agency obtained a copy. The statement disclosed: "The naval units of the National Guard in the governorates of Nabeul and Bizerte managed on Thursday evening to thwart three surreptitious crossings of the maritime borders towards Italy from the Tunisian coasts, arrested 27 persons, and seized a sum of money in foreign currency."

The statement added: "The Public Prosecution has ordered taking the necessary legal measures in this regard."

On Monday, the Tunisian Ministry of the Interior announced that the National Guard's naval units were able to rescue 103 illegal immigrants whose boat broke down while they were sailing towards Italy.

Since the revolution of 17 December, 2010, Tunisia has witnessed a remarkable increase in the number of irregular migrants, despite the tightening of security measures on the coasts.

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According to official figures, 22,000 young people illegally immigrated in 2011, heading towards the Italian coasts.

Last August, the National Institute of Statistics (INS) confirmed that there had been a 19.63 per cent increase in unemployment since the previous year.

Irregular migration to Europe continues, especially towards Italy, where migrants hope to find jobs and better life prospects to escape the repercussions of the economic and political crises facing most countries in the region.

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A Canadian national pleaded guilty Thursday to his role in a financial scheme to smuggle illegal immigrants from Sri Lanka into the United States by way of the Caribbean.

Sri Kajamukam Chelliah, 55, of Sri Lanka, admitted to conspiring with others to facilitate the travel of illegal from Sri Lanka through Haiti, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Bahamas to the U.S. around July 2019 through October 2019, according to his plea agreement.

Shadow of a prisoner inside a prison cell projected on the ground. (iStock)

The Justice Department (DOJ) said Chelliahs scheme involved him working with other human smugglers, arranging housing and transport for illegal aliens en route to Canada through the U.S.

Chelliah arranged for the illegal immigrants to be transported from the airport in Port Au Prince, Haiti, to a hotel where Chelliah provided housing and food.

Chelliah then arranged for transportation by boat from Haiti to the Turks and Caicos Islands, then to the Bahamas, and then by boat to Miami. He also accompanied the individuals, including traveling with them by boat. Chelliah and his co-conspirators smuggling activities were done in exchange for payment, the DOJ said.

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Chelliah admitted that in October 2019, the six aliens accompanying him boarded a Haitian sloop sailboat heading for Turks and Caicos. Authorities from those islands interdicted the sailboat and arrested Chelliah on local immigration charges and sentenced him to 12 months in prison.

Following the completion of his prison sentence, he was placed in immigration detention in Turks and Caicos. He was later arrested last July by Turks and Caicos authorities based on a provisional arrest request submitted by the U.S. government.

Chelliah was extradited to the U.S. in August and the criminal complaint was unsealed at his initial appearance on the same date.

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"By participating in a smuggling operation which planned to illegally transport individuals through various countries, including the United States, the defendant jeopardized the national security of the United States for his own financial benefit" said Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicholas L. McQuaid of the Justice Departments Criminal Division.

Chelliahs sentencing will be scheduled at a later date.

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