Recent Surges in Illegal Immigration Drive the Illegal Alien Population to a Record 14.3 Million, Finds Analysis by FAIR
(September 23, 2019, Washington, D.C.) —A series of surges in illegal immigration across our southern border, coupled with large-scale abuses of our political asylum process and other humanitarian policies, have driven the illegal alien population of the United States into record territory, finds a new report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). There are now an estimated 14.3 million people living illegally in the United States, a jump of nearly 2 million people since 2017.
According to the report, a combination of factors is responsible for the dramatic increase in the number of people residing illegally in the U.S.:
https://www.fairus.org/press-releases/recent-surges-illegal-immigration-drive-illegal-alien-population-record-143-million
