Cost for mass deportation? $285 billion

Subject: Cost for mass deportation? $285 billion Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:28 am

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money.

Some politician once famously said that. Today, President Obama signed the historic health care reform law that's supposed to cost about $900 billion over 10 years.

That's a lot of money. And so are the costs for deporting all of the illegal immigrants in the U.S.

A new report by the Center for American Progress says it will cost $285 billion to find, apprehend, detain, legally process and transport the almost 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and maintain current enforcement levels at the border and interior for five years.

CAP says deportation alone would cost $200 billion. Then you have to figure in the $85 billion needed to maintain the current enforcement strategy for five years.

That total figure is triple what the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement estimated it would cost in 2007 to deport the 12 million people estimated to be in the U.S. illegally. The ICE chief told a Senate committee that the deportation price tag would be $94 billion.

From the report:

When viewed through this most narrow but most telling fiscal lens, it should be clear that a deportation-only strategy is highly irresponsible. In these challenging economic times, spending a king's ransom to tackle a symptom of our immigration crisis without addressing root causes would be a massive waste of taxpayer dollars. Spending $285 billion would require $922 in new taxes for every man, woman, and child in this country.

If this kind of money were raised, it could provide every public and private school student from prekindergarten to the 12th grade an extra $5,100 for their education. Or more frivolously, that $285 billion would pay for about 26,146 trips in the private space travel rocket.

http://blogs.chron.com/immigration/archives/2010/03/cost_for_mass_d.html

Cost for mass deportation? $285 billion

Cost for mass deportation? $285 billion

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