The United States is absorbing 3 to 5 million illegal immigrants every year under Democratic rule.
Posted by The Charlie Kirk Show, Checked
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The Charlie Kirk ShowAug 5, 2026
The extracted claim departs from the passage: the post says the country "cannot absorb another three to 5 million illegals every year," a hypothetical rhetorical limit, not a statement that the US is absorbing that many now.
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What was said
… You know, they're looking at us going, "We gave the majority, and you're not doing anything. Why should we go for you again?" Yeah, and why exactly? Listen, I'm of the perspective that the Democrats are unacceptable, okay? This country cannot absorb another three to 5 million illegals every year under the Democrat rule, okay? We can't, we can't, so that is out of the option list, okay? They have lost their minds. They're a bunch of communists, obviously. That's unacceptable. …
The Charlie Kirk Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. FAIR's estimate of the illegal alien population grew by 4.1 million from December 2020 to March 2025, roughly 0.8 million per year over about five years, well below 3 to 5 million per year.[2]
Context. Border encounters fell sharply after January 2025, with CBP reporting FY 2026 apprehensions of 98,708 and total encounters of 379,243, the lowest in agency history.[1][3]
Context. MPI estimates 790,000 to 1.9 million departures of immigrants with at least a year of US residence between January 2025 and July 2026, which measures outflows rather than the intake the claim describes.[4]
Sources
4 sources: 1 fact-checker, 2 primary, 1 not rated
- 1State of the Union fact-check: Trump exaggerates on ...politifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2How Many Illegal Aliens Are in the United States? 2025 ...congress.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 3Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, DHS Announces ...dhs.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 4U.S. Deportations and Self-Deportations in the First 18 ...migrationpolicy.org · not rated · cited for: context
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