Study: Wall will pay for itself with only 3-4% reduction in illegal crossings

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the border wall between Mexico and the United States would only have to stop 3 percent to 4 percent of potential illegal crossers, or about 60,000 of an estimated 2 million over the next decade, to pay for Trump’s $5 billion request.

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Steven Camarota, the research director at the Center for Immigration Studies, used several financial databases to come up with a lifetime cost of $82,191 for every single new illegal immigrant.

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