If enacted, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (CIRA, S. 2611) would be the most dramatic change in immigration law in 80 years, granting amnesty to 30 million illegal immigrants, and allowing an estimated 100-203 million persons to legally immigrate to the U.S. over the next 20-40 years – a number equal to fully two-thirds of the current population of the United States. (Heritage Foundation; Senate Immigration Bill Would Allow 100 Million New Legal Immigrants over the Next Twenty Years)

U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) unveiled an impact analysis that shows the Senate immigration bill – should it become law – would permit up to 217.1 million new legal immigrants into the United States over the next 20 years, a number equal to more than 70% of the total current population. (U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions Unveils Massive Numerical Impact Of Senate Immigration Bill)

Many illegal aliens harbor fatal diseases that American Medicine fought and vanquished long ago, such as drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, plague, polio, dengue and Chagas disease.Imagine the impact this will have on America with Comprehensive Immigration Reform. (Madeleine Pelner Cosman, PhD, Esq; Illegal Aliens and American Medicine; The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons)

The number of illegal immigrants in the United States is at least 20 million, and may be as many as 30 million people, more than triple the official nine million people estimated by the Census Bureau. 03 Jan 2005. (Bear Stearns; The Underground Labor Force is Rising to the Surface) See below; this number has now been estimated at closer to 40,000,000.