Comment by anigbrowl

Historically this isn't exceptional, and is arguably a reversion ot hte mean following the disruption of a WW2 and its aftershocks.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/imm...

I thought 18M undocumented was a high %age!

Seems inflated. Reliable estimates run around 2/3 of that. Higher numbers always seem anchored only by handwavey 'there must be more because reasons', which is why you regularly see people claiming sums of 20m, 30m, 40m. The current president has a habit of picking arbitrary numbers based on his feelings, but that doesn't sem a very reliable system to me.

https://ohss.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2024-06/2024_0418_o...