Millions of illegals aren’t a crisis

“While acknowledging the obvious socioeconomic problems illegal immigrants cause, Snow argues in a column that immigration — legal and illegal — “is not the pox neo-Know Nothings make it out to be.”

Snow’s column is part of Reason’s current package of pro-immigration essays, “Immigration Now, Immigration Tomorrow, Immigration Forever,” which is sprinkled with some facts about illegal immigrants often drowned out by the political hype and semi-hysteria:

Percentage of illegal immigrants who got here by jumping the Mexican or Canadian border: 60. Percent who overstayed their tourist or educational visas: 40.”

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