[AuntB]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1840655/posts

Do you realize if this AMNESTY happens we are in effect creating the equivilent of adding over 17 more states to this country? And that’s not even considering the chain migration that is in the Senate bill.

Please look at what giving amnesty to as many as 20,000,000 illegal alien foreign nationals actually represents. More than the population of 16 states and DC!

According to the 2000 census, 18,785,867 is the total populations combined of
Wyoming,
Dist. of Columbia,
Vermont,
Alaska,
North Dakota,
South Dakota,
Delaware,
Montana,
Rhode Island,
Hawaii,
New Hampshire,
Maine,
Idaho,
Nebraska,
West Virginia,
New Mexico
and Nevada.

THINK about that.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/population.shtml

[gcruse]

It’s going to happen. It happens about every twenty years because we don’t seal the border.

You know what they say about rape and inevitability, don’t you?

[Mr. Know It All]

Do you realize if this AMNESTY happens we are in effect creating the equivilent of adding over 17 more states to this country?

One thing that confuses me about the "we'll be adding" line of reasoning is: aren't the illegals already here? Granting them amnesty, or whatever allows them to stay, won't be "adding" anything, really.

Furthermore, this statistic is really, really misleading -- it acts as if "1 state" is some kind of equal unit, but in fact, the states listed are the 17 least populous. There are less than a million people in the state of Wyoming -- if we had 17 more "Wyomings" in population, you'd hardly notice.

Just sayin'.