[SandRat]

That's an under count if you ask those of us on the border.

[JackelopeBreeder]

Yep, that's a vast undercount. You can safely multiply that 390,000 per year by five and still come in low.

In FY 2002 the Border Patrol and INS apprehended 1,062,279 illegal aliens nationwide -- 994,720 were Mexican; another 40,336 were other Central and South American. That left only 27,223 from all other countries.

I haven't seen the final figures for FY 2003 yet, probably still stuck in the political spin cycle, but I do know that apprehensions along the Mexican border alone were standing just over 932,000 when last seen.

That's just the apprehensions. The number of gotaways is much, much higher.