For the longest time I have understood through the media (so right there I hold that up to scrutiny) that not so long ago there were an estimated 9 million illegals here. Then 10 million. Then 12 million. Fine. These numbers went up because yeah, each year we get such-and-such numbers of illegals and it happened over a few years. I doubted it, sure. I figured that there had to be more than that. I lived in Orange County, CA for Chrissakes. Lately I've been hearing the media say around 22 million or 24 million. Whoa! Where did those numbers come from so quickly? I figure the media has been hiding this for one of several reasons: Maybe they didn't know for sure or because they didn't want to alarm us or perhaps they wanted to keep us in the dark about what is really going on or maybe the reason is to make us uneasy and fearful of the whole situation. Maybe they want us to think we are surrounded and if we resist this there might be some sort of uprising.

Am I looking too deep into this or is there really something to it? I just don't trust them one tiny bit.