I was explaining that it is much more important to keep illegal entrants out than to deport visa overstays

Ok

and illegal entrants almost always enter by land or sea

rarely by air

are we done now, do you get it

40% of migrants enter by air

jesus christ

Later on, it says "40% might be too low"

On the politifact page

you are very stubborn and retarded which is a bad combination, but do you want to hear about the other ways that you're wrong?

Ok

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

it is a shitshow!

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