 It's tripled since 2018. It's on pace to hit 8 million people by the end of the year, which our friends for the National Immigration Center for Enforcement point out is larger than the population of 35 of our American states. The population of illegals waiting for a hearing that'll never happen, which is just mind-blowing. How many states? 35. Wow. In other words, there are only 15 states that are bigger than that.