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The claim that deliberately want "illegal aliens" counted in the U.S. Census chiefly to gain more congressional seats is overstated: Democrats have repeatedly defended the long-standing constitutional...
Estimates of how much "illegal aliens" cost U.S. taxpayers diverge sharply because researchers measure different things: one line of work finds undocumented immigrants paid roughly , while other analy...
The three analyses provided present divergent estimates of the fiscal impact of undocumented immigration on U.S. taxpayers in recent years: one conservative advocacy group estimates a as of early 2023...
The claimed annual cost of illegal immigration to Texas varies widely across analyses, from in a Texas Attorney General estimate to in a Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)–based calcula...
The estimated number of people living in the United States without legal status ranges across credible studies from about , with the most-cited recent nonpartisan estimate centering near . Different m...
analyzed data and concluded that are incarcerated at substantially higher rates than citizens and lawful residents—reporting averages of roughly three times higher and as much as five times higher in ...
The supplied reporting does not include a document that explicitly shows a study that uses SCAAP (State Criminal Alien Assistance Program) data; what is available shows FAIR produces claiming large fi...
Most reputable demographic researchers place the unauthorized (illegal/undocumented) immigrant population of the in 2025 near the low-to-mid tens of millions, with the best current syntheses pointing ...
Available reporting shows large, rapid shifts in the U.S. unauthorized/undocumented population through 2025, with top-line estimates ranging from about 10.5 million to 18.6 million and evidence that t...
estimates of the undocumented (or unauthorized) immigrant population rest on a mix of survey “residual” calculations, administrative flow accounting, microdata bottom‑up reconstructions and alternativ...
Naturalized members of Congress do have official immigration and naturalization paperwork—typically a Form N‑400 and a naturalization certificate—but those records are not routinely published by state...
Estimates of the annual cost of providing welfare benefits to undocumented immigrants in the United States vary dramatically depending on definitions, scope, and methodology; published figures range f...
Current authoritative academic estimates in mid-2025 place the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States at roughly , with several respected research centers converging near , while advoc...
From the available reporting, and deportation from 2020–2025 dwarfs the direct costs borne by state and local governments: federal outlays have surged into the tens and hundreds of billions through ba...
FAIR's analysis of State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) data concluded that undocumented immigrants are incarcerated at much higher rates than citizens and lawfully present immigrants—findi...
The answer depends on which metric is used: border and enforcement “encounters,” releases/paroles, or researchers’ estimates of the resident unauthorized population — and those measures diverge sharpl...
Estimates of the fiscal cost of undocumented immigrants vary wildly depending on the author and methodology: recent advocacy and think‑tank reports produce figures from roughly $96.7 billion per year ...
Illegal immigration is a contested and rapidly changing issue in 2025: the Department of Homeland Security claims roughly 2 million people have been removed or self-deported since January 20, 2025 , w...
Estimates of the annual fiscal cost of undocumented immigration in 2025 cluster around large headline figures—commonly cited as roughly $150–$182 billion—but those totals rest on contested assumptions...
estimates that undocumented immigrants paid in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022, a total ITEP breaks down as $59.4 billion to the federal government and $37.3 billion to state and local governm...