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Illegal immigrant statistics only attempt to measure the number of illegals in the country. Your figures that say illegal immigration is declining only capture this figure, and do not tell you about the increased border crossings *in both directions*
illegal immigrants follow a pattern of crossing back and forth regularly, making our border with Mexico extremely porous and vulnerable to criminal activity
Further, illegal immigration data is by its nature nebulous, which means that every interpretation of that spotty data has had its holes filled in by guesswork, and in every case by bias or wishful thinking as well.
By these two forces combined, illegal immigration statistics from any source are so unreliable that it is foolish to base any theory or policy off of them
If there is a certain trend in the data, then it means its based on some accuracy
that is wrong and betrays your complete misunderstanding of data error
any change that is within the margin of error must not be considered a trend
Wouldn’t the numbers be jumping up and down if it was completly wrong?
no.
There wouldnt be a trend
data collection can be precise and innaccurate
you would benefit from a formal stats course
I'm sure you would find it interesting to learn how your magic numbers come to be
The data has a 90% confidence interval
That's low
True
and it is still made using methods that tell you *nothing* about border crossing numbers
But not enough that it dismisses the idea of it declining
in depth studies all show that migrants travel back and forth regularly, meaning the yearly border crossings are many times what the illegal resident numbers suggest
and combined with their low confidence there is really not much anyone can use these data interpretations for, except disinformation campaigns, which is exactly what everyone does
So are the statistics about illegals exaggerated?
But its measured the same way every year
yeah. poorly.
Its based on some accuracy
yeah. low accuracy.
I have explained why the data and its interpretations are worthless now
The numbers might be a bit off, but the declining trend is true
please refer to the above
and also enroll in a stats course
Doesn't that discredit the urgency of wall considering that people entering the country could have been in the states previously
But we can agree it has not rapidly increased, right?
please stop, I can only wrangle one libtard at a time
Libgay*
your combined autism will make me go insane
Autism is a gift, it grants me power beyond your understanding
I'm going to go now anon, I can tell that you either don't read or don't understand a lot of this
good luck
That's a nice way to end a discussion. lol
The numbers of illegal border crossing per month has also declined
Explain this?