“The number of people in the U.S. illegally is “upwards of 20, 25, maybe 30 million.”
What PolitiFact found
Different immigration groups, using different methodologies, estimate that the population here illegally ranges from 10.9 million to 16.8 million.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Marco Rubio (U.S. Senator) made this claim around 19 May 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 June 2024, 25 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Marco Rubio has 16 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qqu0_RBUdE
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