[nucleardog]

Not going to dig too far to try and find updated numbers, but as of 2014 about 2/3 of people who had entered the country illegally that year were people that overstayed their visa and the ratio had been on an upward trend for quite a while.

I'm sure you could torture that into applying to that situation, but at least on a very plain reading it doesn't sound like it applies generally to those people.

[dataflow]

> 2/3 of people who had entered the country illegally that year were people that overstayed their visa

That doesn't make sense. If you overstayed the visa then you (probably?) entered legally, not illegally. Did you mean something else?

[bombcar]

I guess they mean “in the country illegally” but I presume you could also argue that if they entered intending to overstay the visa, they entered illegally.

[nucleardog]

Yeah something like that. Of the people who entered the country that year and who were now in the country illegally, 2/3 had entered on a valid visa.

Was trying to figure out a succinct way to say that and instead just butchered it. Words are hard.