The term “crisis” is chronically overused by politicians, but the numbers behind the debate over the “border crisis” speak for themselves. Between 16 and 29 million people are now living in the United States illegally, costing American taxpayers more than $100 billion a year.

Sixty thousand more are now illegally crossing the southern border each month, an 86 percent increase over last year.

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