After the Trump administration announced last week that it is reviewing the valid visas of more than 55 million people, social media users began using this figure to inflate the number of noncitizens living in the U.S. by tens of millions.

Posts claimed that these 55 million visa holders, plus about 25 million or more people living in the country illegally, means that nearly a quarter to a third of the people living in the U.S. are not American citizens. The total U.S. population is about 342 million. Politics

Trump administration reviewing all 55M people with US visas for deportable violations

Associated Press

However, government data contradicts these figures, and experts say the estimates spreading online are highly inflated.

There were nearly 22 million noncitizens residing in

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