| LurkerJ said:
What. The. Actual. Fuck. Not to mention, the 12 million number is from 2006. It got much higher by 2012 (the year in which this cover was issued) and I am pretty sure it's even higher now. |
Just going to point out that you cannot really draw any conclusions based off of that reasoning. You're just claiming numbers based off of numbers from one year and assuming it's higher based off of preconceived notions. You can't just say "because it was X number this year, it must be higher now" when, in fact, there's a lot of reasons why it can lower as well.
Some data from the US Department of Homeland Security, for example. There are data/evidence of the number going down instead of up. You can't just assume you know things without actually knowing them.
Just for extra confirmation, I'll give you the link where I got this image.
https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/visualization/2015
edit: 
Throwing in this one for good measure.
