Math on immigrant population doesn’t add up, experts say - Escondido, California

“”His numbers are questionable,” said Rob Paral, who recently completed a study on the illegal immigrant population by congressional district.

Abed has said he arrived at his 35,000 figure by extrapolating data from a study, based on the 2000 U.S. Census, that found about half of the Latinos in Vista were ineligible to vote because they are not U.S. citizens. Abed said he calculated that, because Escondido and Vista have similar demographics, half of Escondido’s Latinos were illegal immigrants.

But that’s too far of a leap, said Jeffrey Passel, a senior research associate with the Pew Hispanic Center who has studied the size of the illegal immigrant population.”

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