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During a White House tax reform event, Trump claimed that, “women are raped at levels that nobody’s ever seen before,” while a caravan of immigrants heads toward the U.S.

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President Donald Trump Doubles Down On Former Illegal Immigration Comments | NBC Nightly News

[zanderdoom]

I Am Mexican, i have always lived in Mexico, but i understand and support Mr Donald Trump, one day little kids and women from many countries are going to be thankful about your decition on ILLEGALS.

[abeldiesel]

Trump Doesn't know what the heck he is doing !!!

[virgilgray]

"Illegal immigration costs our country more than $113 billion a year. And this is what we get, " Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, said. "For the money we are going to spend on illegal immigration over the next 10 years, we could provide 1 million at-risk students with a school voucher, which so many people are wanting."

We wondered if illegal immigration costs taxpayers $113 billion a year. We asked Trump’s campaign for the source of his data but did not hear back.

Fox News’ Sean Hannity presented the $113 billion figure a few days earlier in a town hall interview with Trump, citing a 2013 report from Federation for American Immigration Reform, a group seeking reduced immigration.

FAIR’s report says $113 billion represents the total cost at the federal, state and local levels for undocumented immigrants. The vast majority -- $84 billion -- is paid by state and local governments.

The $113 billion is not a net cost. Taking into consideration federal, state and local tax payments made by the undocumented population, the net cost would be about $99 billion, according to the FAIR report.

The report details federal expenses for education, medical treatment, law enforcement, public assistance and general expenditures covering people here illegally.

General expenses include "non-enumerated functions of government, " such as the cost of fire departments or of the legislature, the report said.

FAIR based its estimates on a pool of 13 million people in the country illegally. It includes at least 3.4 million children who are U.S. citizens born to undocumented parents.

That total estimate is higher than figures estimated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, about 11.4 million by January 2012. Pew Research Center estimated there were 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants in 2014.

Before Trump, other Republican officials have used FAIR reports to bolster arguments about the fiscal costs of undocumented immigrants on their state. (PolitiFact has rated similar but state-centric claims in Florida and New Jersey as False, another claim Mostly False in Oregon, and one Half True in Georgia.)

One thing we’ve been told over the years: FAIR’s conclusions stem from inexact estimates and assumptions.

American Immigration Council, a pro-immigrant think tank, said a previous FAIR report about this topic in 2010 relied "upon flawed and empirically baseless assumptions to inflate its estimate of the costs."

In its estimated health care costs, we’ve found FAIR used a survey of hospitals that includes private hospitals, which are not funded by the state government.

And its reports have assumed that most students enrolled in English learning classes are children of undocumented immigrants. That’s because "legal immigrants have often studied in the United States or otherwise learned English before immigrating and raise their children to speak English, " the 2013 report says.

Regarding the inclusion of education expenses for U.S. born children, "Without regard to whether this estimate is accurate, the concept of this being a ‘cost’ attributable to the unauthorized immigrants is subject to debate, " said Jeff Passel, a senior demographer at Pew Research Center.

The 2013 FAIR study also includes about $2.47 billion in fraudulent use of Medicaid, though it said only anecdotal information is available.

[brianiklabuay]

President Trump, if Mexicans won't let me work, you are coming down with me.

[BarushGarcia]

Trump si no le pago a Electra ni a coopel ¿Que te hace pensar que te voy a pagar a ti el muro?