[denzil_correa]

> Maybe you're including the whopping 85,000 H1B visas or other temporary work visas for NON-immigrants?

Are you telling us that at a given point of time there are only 85,000 people in the US with H1B visas? In 2009, there are 650,000 H1B holders : 10 times the actual number [0]. J1 visa holders are about 300,000 per year [1]. Even the most conservative estimates makes this 1M legal residents apart from Green Card holders. Even the most conservative estimates, makes legal residents 2x the times the illegal residents. The actual number will be even higher.

Feel free to continue ignoring the evidence.

[0] http://cis.org/estimating-h1b-population-2-11

[1] https://j1visa.state.gov/basics/facts-and-figures/

[newmanships]

No the numbers I listed were entries of each type in 2015. That doesn't include ones from previous years. You said immigration was controlled. The fact that roughly the same amount of legal immigrants came into the country as illegal immigrants in the year 2015 shows this is not accurate.

With your logic we might as well just tally up all the legal immigrants that entered the country and all the people that have been naturalized since the country was founded.