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A new study by a liberal Washington think tank puts the cost of forcibly removing most of the nation’s estimated 10 million illegal immigrants at $41 billion a year, a sum that exceeds the annual budget of the Department of Homeland Security.
The study, “Deporting the Undocumented: A Cost Assessment,” scheduled for release today by the Center for American Progress, is billed by its authors as the first-ever estimate of costs associated with arresting, detaining, prosecuting and removing immigrants who have entered the United States illegally or overstayed their visas. The total cost would be $206 billion to $230 billion over five years, depending on how many of the immigrants leave voluntarily, according to the study.
“There are some people who suggest that mass deportation is an option,” said Rajeev K. Goyle, senior domestic policy analyst for the center and a co-author of the study. “To understand deportation policy response, we had to have a number.”
Advocates for tougher enforcement of immigration laws did not dispute the study’s figures but disputed its assumptions about how enforcement would work.
$4100 per person is not so great when you look at what it is costing us now.
We have to ask ourselves do the benefits out weigh the costs
In my mind, yes sabor they do. These illegals are costing us more than $4100/each.
2,3, there is more than cost that is the crux of the situation. It is the LAW and Principle. Either you enforce the law or you scrap the law. Either you do right, which always costs more, or you don’t.
Hey where’s the checkbook? We are probably spending more than that on health care, public education, bi-lingual interpertors in our government services, the W.I.C program…I mean where do I stop? We would actually be saving money if we paid this!
5- I agree with you dee! We can’t afford not to spend the money!
does this 41 billion $ figure in the cost of finding all them illegals?
finding them and deporting them.
8. well lets hope they are still deportable. if not then charge them for when they were illegal, and the cost of having to find them.:lol: