claim: "illegal immigration costs our country more than $113 billion a year."
author: donald trump
evidence_1: sep 1, 2016 ... here's a roundup of some of the more interesting claims he made in the lengthy  address; we expect we will dig deeper into some of his other statistics in the  coming days. as is our practice, we do not award pinocchios in speech roundups . “illegal immigration costs our country more than $113 billion a year.
evidence_2: sep 27, 2017 ... fair estimates the economic impact of illegal immigrants to be over $115 billion  annually. ... and local levels, taxpayers shell out approximately $134.9 billion to  cover the costs incurred by the presence of more than 12.5 million illegal aliens,  and ... so, in under four years, the cost has risen nearly $3 billion.
evidence_3: jul 6, 2010 ... the cost of harboring illegal immigrants in the united states is a staggering $113  billion a year -- an average of $1117 for every “native-headed” ... in california the  additional cost of illegal immigration, $21.8 billion, is $8 billion more than the  state's current budget deficit of $13.8 billion; and in new york, the ...
evidence_4: sep 1, 2016 ... questionable cost estimate. trump claimed that “illegal immigration costs our  country more than $113 billion a year.” that's a conservative group's estimate  that includes the cost of public education and health care for u.s.-born children of  immigrants who came to the country illegally. other studies have ...
evidence_5: jan 29, 2015 ... ... undocumented immigrants cost u.s. and state governments $113 billion a year  in welfare programs. the report argues that immigrants use more welfare  programs than people born in the united states. “the more illegal aliens we have  taking advantage of welfare funding, the more strain there is on our ...