DHS Expects To Spend Between $250 And $1,000 Per Day To House Illegal Immigrant Children

July 17, 2014 by Ben Bullard

How much does it cost you to pay for yourself each day?
According to Jeh Johnson, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, it is costing the Federal government anywhere between $250 and $1,000 per day to feed and house each illegal immigrant child whom immigration enforcement agents have picked up inside the Nation’s southern border.
That information came at a Homeland Security briefing Wednesday at which Johnson met with Senators from both political parties. When he revealed the cost of caring for the illegal immigrants, “there was an audible gasp; a bipartisan gasp” in the room, according to Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who attended the briefing and spoke with National Review following the meeting.
Here’s more from National Review:
Senate Budget Committee chairwoman Patty Murray (D., Wash.) wouldn’t comment on the overall cost of housing so far. “It’s in the president’ request,” she said. President Obama asked Congress to provide $1.8 billion to the Department of Health and Human Services “to provide the appropriate care for unaccompanied children, consistent with Federal law, while maintaining services for refugees.”
Current estimates place this year’s illegal immigrant surge, dating to October of last year, at close to 60,000 people; the government expects another 30,000 illegals to arrive before October of this year.
President Barack Obama, who has a history of insisting that the U.S-Mexico border is adequately secured against mass migrations of such magnitude, has requested Congress to authorize $3.7 billion in emergency funding to address the border crisis – from which the above-mentioned $1.8 billion for housing, feeding and health care, while the money lasts, would be drawn. The housing funds would be administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Johnsons explained that $250 per day represents the best-case cost of caring for the illegal immigrant children as they await either a deportation hearing or – if some GOP Congressional leaders can persuade the Obama Administration – expedited deportation. If, however, the government has to contract with outside vendors to provide caretaking services, that cost would quadruple to an estimated $1,000 per day for each child.

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