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Shock report: US paying more for illegal immigrant births than Trump’s wall

By Paul Bedard
Published October 9, 2018 9:47am ET
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Shock report: US paying more for illegal immigrant births than Trump’s wall
In this Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015 photo in Sullivan City, Texas, a woman who is in the country illegally shows the footprints of her daughter who was born in the in the United States.

Americans are paying more to cover the costs of illegal immigrants having children in the United States than Congress plans to give President Trump in border wall funding this year, according to an explosive new analysis of Census Bureau data.

The new report reveals that women in the United States illegally had 297,000 children in 2014 at a cost of $2.4 billion.

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