In recent days we've been hearing that the last five years have brought the greatest influx of immigrants this country has ever seen. We have also heard that illegal immigration outnumbers legal immigration. The most recent estimate of the number of illegal immigrants in the last five years (2000 - 2005) is 8 million.

If this figure is even close to real, why in the hedoubletoothpicks does everyone and their brother keep using the outdated figure of 11 million illegal aliens? The 11 million figure was based on the 2000 census which under-counted illegal aliens by huge amounts. Illegal aliens have been coming into this country in huge numbers since the mid to late 90's. Add together the low figure of 11 million with the low number of 8 million in the last five years and the biased media should be using the low figure of 19 million instead of 11.