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Counting how many people “crossed the border illegally under Biden” depends on the measure: U.S. Border Patrol encounters/apprehensions rose to record highs during Biden’s term — CBP and advocacy tall...
Immigration — legal and illegal — increases housing demand, but experts and major studies say it is not the dominant cause of the U.S. affordability crisis; constrained supply, zoning and native-born ...
There is no single, authoritative count in the provided reporting that states “how many illegal aliens entered the U.S. in 2025”; available official sources give month-by-month “encounters” and operat...
Estimates of how many unauthorized or “illegal” immigrants live in the United States vary widely: leading academic and nonpartisan estimates put the mid‑2023 figure between about 13.7 million and 14 m...
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia are commonly identified by advocacy groups and some reporting as having statewide “sanctuary” laws, policies, or legal opinions—though the exact list and ...
Reporting based on leaked emails and a series of Drop Site News pieces documents repeated contacts between Jeffrey Epstein and senior Israeli figures—most prominently former prime minister Ehud Barak ...
There is no single, authoritative breakdown of the racial or ethnic composition of the U.S. undocumented/unauthorized population in the search results provided; major estimates of total unauthorized p...
Pew Research Center’s August 2025 reporting says the unauthorized (commonly called “illegal”) immigrant population reached a record 14 million in 2023 and that six states — California, Texas, Florida,...
Estimates of the taxpayer cost of “illegal immigration” vary widely: a 2024 FAIR study puts the annual fiscal burden at roughly $151 billion and calculates a per-taxpayer hit near $1,156 ($957 after a...
Claims that Governor Maura Healey “gave $30,000 to illegal immigrants” refer to Massachusetts’ HomeBASE rental-assistance program, which critics say can provide up to $30,000 in aid over two years to ...
Available sources show sizable variation in estimates of the US unauthorized/undocumented population and emphasize changing origins and diversity rather than a single “racial breakdown.” Pew, MPI, Mig...
Leaked documents and reporting in 2024–2025 — notably Drop Site News’ series and hacked Ehud Barak emails — have renewed claims that Jeffrey Epstein had operational ties with Israeli intelligence, pro...
Estimates of U.S. spending “on illegal immigration” vary widely across analyses and advocates: FAIR and like-minded groups put annual costs at roughly $150–182 billion per year (FAIR reported $151–182...
The U.S. decennial census is constitutionally designed to allocate House seats and Electoral College votes by counting “the whole number of persons in each state,” which the Census Bureau interprets a...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published statements asserting that roughly 1.6 million people "have left" the United States in a short period in 2025 and later framed that number as par...
Available, credible studies and advocacy reports agree that undocumented immigrants both pay and cost taxpayers billions annually, but the sources provided do not supply a consistent denominator neede...
There is no single authoritative count in the available reporting for “how many undocumented people have entered the U.S. since President Trump’s second term began”; sources instead provide competing ...
Estimates of the number of undocumented (unauthorized) immigrants in the U.S. rose sharply after 2020, with Pew Research Center reporting a jump from roughly 10.5 million in 2021 to a record 14 millio...
Academic and policy analyses disagree sharply on whether undocumented immigrants are a net fiscal drain. Some advocacy and congressional reports put annual costs in the hundreds of billions and indivi...
Estimates of annual tax revenue from undocumented (commonly called “illegal”) immigrants cluster around roughly $90–$100 billion for 2022–2023 in recent, widely cited analyses: the Institute on Taxati...