Pontiac Times

An immigration group released a report on June 22 that estimates there are nearly 17 million illegal immigrants living in the United States, a figure that has increased by 16% since 2021 when President Biden took office.

“17 million illegal immigrants currently live in America,” U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) said in a June 22 Twitter post. “That is more than the population of my home state of Michigan.”

The report was released by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a non-partisan, public-interest organization that claims 3 million members. As of June 2023, the FAIR report estimates that “approximately 16.8 million illegal aliens reside in the United States. This is significantly higher than our January 2022 illegal alien population estimate of 15.5 million. This estimate is also a 2.3 million increase from our end-of-2020 estimate, meaning the illegal alien population increased 16 percent nationwide during just the first two years of Joe Biden’s presidency.”

Further, the FAIR report includes a fiscal cost study of illegal immigration, challenges in estimating the population, how it reached its estimate and causes driving the numbers.