How did it get to 11 million? Note that the correct answer is NOT "It's Obama's soft approach." I remember Dubya trying to get a lot of these people US legal residency and a path to citizenship if they were not criminals - that got shot down, likely because it was so convenient to be able to take advantage of illegals as cheap labour. This isn't a black and white issue no matter how Trump tries to paint it, or you too it would seem