Expert: DACA amnesty to increase illegal population to 14 million, cost billions

Published October 5, 2017 11:44am ET



Amnesty for 700,000 illegal immigrants in the DACA program would open the door for 1.4 million more of their parents and relatives to enter the U.S., tripling their population and adding substantial costs to taxpayers, according to an immigration expert.

Added to the estimated 12 million illegal aliens already in the U.S., the amnesty program favored in Congress would boost that to over 14 million.

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