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That may or may not work depending on where you're at.

If for example you have poor compliance with the law then the law is mostly useless (in the US you do have to update your ID in 30 days, but huge numbers of people dont).

And that doesn't count if your country has a huge undocumented population, like some places in the US do.

>>pixl97+(OP)
Most countries don't extend citizenship to illegals. No driver license, no housing, no benefits. They are irrelevant to the statistics- it would be like counting squirrels.

>>expedi+f91
>They are irrelevant to the statistics

"Wow, why are the roads wearing out twice as fast as we expect?!"

>>expedi+f91
Undocumented residents are pretty different from squirrels. They participate in the economy pretty similarly to documented residents. Consumption, transportation, jobs, housing, etc, and all the related taxation and resource utilization.

>>Lalo-A+6s1
Would be tough to pull that off in Switzerland, having lived there for a stint. Can’t imagine the tax guys would be that happy.