Thread: Deporting All Of America's Illegal Immigrants Would Cost A Whopping $285 Billion

Deporting All Of America's Illegal Immigrants Would Cost A Whopping $285 Billion

[i]By Jana Kasperkevic Jan.30,2012



With 19 debates and the State of the Union address behind us, we have heard a lot about immigration including President's call for immigration reform, Gingrich's immigration plan focusing on deporting criminal illegal immigrants, Romney's newest plan of self deportation and a discussion about who wants to deport more grandmas. Yet the question that remains unanswered is, what would it cost to deport an undocumented grandma?
A year ago, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deputy director Kumar Kibble told Congress itcosts about $12,500 to deport an undocumented immigrant.


However, a 2010 report by Center for American Progress and Rob Paral and Associates took a close look at all the budget appropriations for ICE and broke down the costs per person for each one of the four stages of deportation process: apprehension, detention, legal proceeding and transportation. The whopping cost of deportation per person that they came up with is $23,480.


The report states that ICE and US Customs and Borders Protection budgets have increased by 80% since 2005, amounting to $17.1 billion in FY2010. If US were to undertake a mass deportation campaign its cost over five years would be $285 billion, which "would mean new taxes of $922 for every man, woman, and child in our country. $5,100 fewer dollars for the education of every public and private school student from prekindergarten to the 12th grade."
Here is the breakdown of the $23,480 figure:

1. Apprehension: $18,310

ICE 2008 budget for apprehensions was $1.24 billion and financed 67,728 apprehensions. That comes out to $18,310 per one apprehension. In some cases, cost per apprehension can be less:
In one enforcement operation in May 2008, the federal government spent $5.2 million from preparation to follow-up costs on a raid at the Agriprocessors Inc. slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, which led to the detention of 389 mostly undocumented immigrant workers.
In that case, cost per apprehension was $13,368.

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2. Detention: $3,355

It costs $99 per bed and $12.82 per personnel (guards) a day to detain a deportee. According to the report, ICE has 32,000 beds in 350 facilities operated by governments or private contractors and 15,300 spaces in community-cased supervision program. These numbers exclude expenses associated with leasing state and local jail facilities. Deportees are on average detained for 30 days, bringing the detention cost to an average $3,355 per deportee.

3. Legal Proceedings: $817

The 2008 appropriations for processing of undocumented immigrants were $238.32 million, which was applied to 291,781 legal proceedings. The $817 per deportee is the most conservative estimate considering it is calculated using the number of cases initiated, rather than number of cases completed, and considering the fact that in 2008, it took on average two proceedings to achieve one deportation.

4. Transportation: $1,000

In 2007, ICE Assistant Secretary Julie Myers estimated $1,000 per person transportation cost for deportees.The report cited the Office of the Federal Detention Trustee that reported per person transportation cost for federal detainees, including deportees, to be $999 in 2008, and projected a $1,190 per person cost for 2011. Most undocumented immigrants from Mexico are transported back across the border by bus. Others are transported by plane by the ICE Detention and Removal Operations Flight Operations Unit in partnership with the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System, which transported almost 200,000 undocumented immigrants in 2008

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Romney wants to keep all that good money, so I'm sure the "No Jobs and No Bennies" approach wouldn't cost taxpayers a damn thing! Sorry Migo's that BS ain't flyin' to high around these here parts!

It wouldn't take that long to pay for plus tax paying citizens would be working and revenue would be higher.

Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. $113 Billion a Year, Study Finds

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Deporting All Of America's Illegal Immigrants Would Cost A Whopping $285 Billion

While I believe this is an inflated number (like all numbers coming from government), it would still be worth it to get America back to work and take back our language and culture.

With the money we spend supporting Mexico we could surely do it and have change left over. Does anyone but me wonder just how long the American people have been supporting Mexico? If we had all that money back we would not be broke.

Originally Posted by Newmexican

It wouldn't take that long to pay for plus tax paying citizens would be working and revenue would be higher.

Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. $113 Billion a Year, Study Finds

Read more: FOX News

Sounds good to me bet we can pay for it all by just not giving them any of these bennies they all get on our dime ...

So is this dumbass trying to convince us it is too expensive to deport? Good luck with that!!!! HaHaHa.

We spend quadruple that amount every year on benefits for illegal aliens between federal, state, and city from prison population, welfare, medical, education, law enforcement, unpaid taxes, housing, and so forth. Seems like a savings to me even if those numbers are right.

But the major failure isn't even thinking that simply denying anything to illegal aliens would be a cost free scenario but that the numbers they have is based on a system that supports illegal aliens and tries to get them to stay which would NOT be the system we would use if we simply were deporting illegal aliens. A deportation agenda wouldn't be all the detention and court fee's but simply a round up, check to make sure they aren't a citizen, and deport within 24 hours. No need for a legal hearing when we know they are an illegal alien as no more "pity me" routines as the law is the law. The cost then would shrink to 1/10th of what they said if it was a round up and deport scenario.

But still just take away all benefits and we only make money while they leave.

Take the benefits, education and JOBS away from illegals and the ONLY choice they will have left... is to GO HOME!

No jobs, no welfare, no citizenship for their anchors, they will mostly leave on their own at their own expense (well except for the hard core criminals).