Illegal population grew by at least 50 percent. What is Congress prepared to do?
March 13, 2025
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Published by Jeremy Beck
The final reckoning of the Biden Administration’s immigration and enforcement policies has yet to come, but the 2021-2025 era was clearly historic. By multiple measures, this was the largest wave of immigration in U.S. history.
Eric Ruark, NumbersUSA’s Director of Research and Sustainability, reports that illegal immigration totaled between 10,000,000 and 12,525,000 over President Biden’s term.
“Some have argued that the illegal alien population was much higher than the most commonly accepted estimates,” Ruark acknowledges. “Demographers do not see evidence to support these higher numbers,” he adds, noting that that some number of illegal aliens return home, die, or adjust their status every year. The broad point, however, is that illegal immigration thrived over the last four years, thanks in large part to programs and policies that the administration created.
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