Thread: $41 Billion Cost Projected to Deport Illegals

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It would be worth every cent! I say YES!

$41 Billion Cost Projected To Remove Illegal Entrants
By Darryl Fears
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 26, 2005; Page A11

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.

Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) supports strengthening immigration laws. (Joe Raedle - Getty Images)
"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.

The study assumed that tougher enforcement would induce 10 percent to 20 percent of undocumented residents in the United States to leave voluntarily. But Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates stronger enforcement of immigration laws, argued that as many as half would leave voluntarily if the government were to aggressively seek them out and crack down on businesses that hire them illegally.

"We do need to know what enforcement would cost," he said, "but [the study] is a cartoon version of how enforcement would work."

The study estimates that it would cost about $28 billion per year to apprehend illegal immigrants, $6 billion a year to detain them, $500 million for extra beds, $4 billion to secure borders, $2 million to legally process them and $1.6 billion to bus or fly them home.

Goyle said that he conducted the study, in part, to respond to conservative officials who have advocated mass deportations, in some cases immediately. Earlier this year, former House speaker Newt Gingrich advocated sealing U.S. borders and deporting all illegal immigrants within 72 hours of arrest.

Will Adams, a spokesman for Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), an outspoken advocate of stronger immigration laws, called the study an "an interesting intellectual exercise" by liberals that is "useless . . . because no one's talking about" employing mass deportation as a tactic.

"No one's talking about buying planes, trains and automobiles to get them out of the country," Adams said. "The vast number of illegal immigrants are coming for jobs. Congressman Tancredo wants to go after the employers."

What Gingrich proposed:

Earlier this year, former House speaker Newt Gingrich advocated sealing U.S. borders and deporting all illegal immigrants within 72 hours of arrest.

What Tancredo has said:

because no one's talking about" employing mass deportation as a tactic.

How the "study" distorts that:

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

There's a huge difference between deporting them right after they're caught and deporting every illegal in the country.

But who needs facts when your goal is to demonize anyone who disagrees with the no borders policy of the left and GWB.

Start jailing the employeers and the Illegals will leave on their own. No job, no money, no place to live. It is far more expensive to remain here without a job than to just go back home.

Center for American Progress

Inside sources have described the Center for American Progress (CAP) as "the official Hillary Clinton think tank" - a platform designed to highlight Hillary's policies and to enhance her prestige as a potential presidential candidate.
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CAP is one of the Seven Sister organizations forming the administrative core of the Democrat Shadow Party. The other Seven Sisters constituent groups are America Coming Together, America Votes, Joint Victory Campaign 2004, The Media Fund, Moveon, and The Thunder Road Group.
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CAP's Web site declares, "we believe America's interests are advanced when we strengthen alliances and work with multilateral institutions that support the rule of law." By the "rule of law," CAP means international law, presumably as promulgated by such "multilateral" bodies as the United Nations - an institution which has proven itself unable to enforce its own edicts.
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The Center for American Progress (CAP) was the brainchild of George Soros and Morton H. Halperin, the latter a veteran leftist critic of national security policies

I should be quoted in a nationwide article by Cox News on this report tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by ALIPAC

I should be quoted in a nationwide article by Cox News on this report tomorrow.

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Cool

Considering what we are throwing away on the Iraq war this sounds like a bargain to me. I'm even willing to pay higher taxes to help pay for it.

Originally Posted by butterbean

It would be worth every cent! I say YES!

$41 Billion Cost Projected To Remove Illegal Entrants

::dumpin' pocket change on counter:::

Will this help? :P

Together, we can scrape up the cash and SEND THEM PACKING!

Be sure to include extra in the budget for the way tall fence to keep them where they belong too! :P

If you get to looking at what it is costing the tax payers, in social services, Health care and our education systems. That is really cheap.

I keep hearing we have created 200,000 jobs and by my calculations, with an estimated 3 million illegals coming in last year. We have a deficit of 600,000 jobs and growing.

Originally Posted by Scubayons

If you get to looking at what it is costing the tax payers, in social services, Health care and our education systems. That is really cheap.

I keep hearing we have created 200,000 jobs and by my calculations, with an estimated 3 million illegals coming in last year. We have a deficit of 600,000 jobs and growing.

Welcome to ALIPAC. Those are good points the article fails to mention that some of the costs will be offset by savings in other government departments providing services for illegals. We can even save more if we started handing out heavy fines to businesses that hire illegals. Also the costs of deporting may be less if illegals realize we are finally taking the issue seriously and start fleeing back to their homelands on their on accord. Below are a few articles discussing the costs illegals are inflicting to the United States.

How Much Do Illegal Aliens Cost U.S. Taxpayers?

The High Cost of Cheap Labor