Posted on 03/11/2015 7:11:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A new study by the American Action Forum estimates that deporting every illegal immigrant, and keeping new ones from entering the country would take 20 years and cost taxpayers between $420 billion and $619 billion total. Averaging those lower and upper estimates, deporting every illegal immigrant and enforcing current immigration laws would cost about $26 billion annually.
For comparison, the Department of State had a budget of $27 billion in 2014. NASA, the Environmental Protection Agency and welfare for needy families (TANF) all receive less than $20 billion in the federal budget. Food stamps cost almost three times more than what complete deportation and enforcement would cost, while the Department of Veterans Affairs budget is almost six times higher.
Still, the annual cost of complete deportation and enforcement would pale in comparison to the cost of entitlements, making it less than one percent of federal spending — $851 billion was spent on Social Security in 2014, with Medicare receiving $512 billion.
The $200 billion difference in taxpayer cost estimates depends on how the government apprehends illegal immigrants. The cost of apprehension ranges from $104 billion to $304 billion. Regardless, the $316 billion cost of enforcement outweighs the cost of deportation. In addition to apprehension, the total cost of deportation is boosted by detention, legal processing and transportation.
In addition to the government cost, there are economic costs to consider as well. These costs are not reflected in the aforementioned costs to taxpayers, but are large enough to be worthy of concern.
Complete deportation and enforcement would cost the economy more than $1.5 trillion over 20 years, with 11 million fewer people in the labor force. Those are percent cuts of 5.7 and 6.4 percent, respectively.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
It’s worth it!! When can we start?
Yeah, costs rise when you treat them like VIP’s in a luxury hotel. Stick them on a school bus and open the door at the border.
On the other hand it would be worth every penny.
Refusing to enforce law is policy.
Let’s overcome that.
Not to mention providing them immediately with Social Security benefits.
Once again the Steadman defense is used. If you can’t deport all of them then we shouldn’t deport any of them.
Let the 'Rats fix Mexico so we all want to move there....
It’s not necessary to actively deport them all. Just enforce employment verification, and most will leave of their own accord.
Continuing to borrow money from China isn’t viable either.
Strawman argument. You don’t have to round them all up in a big expensive deportation initiative.
We can just change (or enforce existing) laws to make it more difficult to function here as an illegal alien.
Not giving drivers’ licenses, government assistance, or paying for education would be a start.
We could also pay for advertising in countries from which the largest illegal populations originate. The advertising could cite tragic stories of families ripped apart and children’s lives ruined because of the parents’ unfortunate choice to violate our laws.
I could suggest other options, but you get the point, which is to encourage self-deportation and discourage new illegal arrivals.
At what cost do you give up your country?
Whatever it costs we must regain the rule of law.
The rule of law is the foundation of our Republic, without it we are lost.
It is not necessary to deport every illegal alien. Once we begin enforcement in earnest many will choose to leave the same way they got here.
Certainly better spent than re-charging millions of EBT cards. Which the left does every week with a smile.
Deportation costs are just an investment in America. Liberals oughtta like that wording...
Start enforcing employment law so they can’t work and many will self-deport.
They track every single chicken, cow, pig, and sheep in this country. They can tell you which part of which field from which farm a package of spinach came from. They are in the process of tracking every single financial transaction for every single person in the US. They want to track every single firearm and even every single bullet. They are in the process of tracking every single car; where it goes and how fast its going.
BUT by golly they can’t seem to figure out a way to track illegal voters or illegal people. Bunch of damn liars who deserve hot tar and feathers.
A good start would be to block money transfers to Mexico, and to effectively seal the borders. What a novel idea.
How much would it cost to buy them all bus tickets?
Didn’t Harry Truman order illegals out to make way for returning veterans ?
First, these arguments always ignore the fact that illegals will self-deport if the laws are enforced and they can’t get jobs or free benefits.
Also, they fail to compare what allowing these illegals to stay in the country will cost us, which is undoubtedly orders of magnitude more than even if we bear the full cost of deportations.
The nation as we know it will not survive. DC does not have the will. The Chamber of Commerce/cheap labor crowd lust for cheap labor, subsidized by government programs. Powerful unions such as education want to protect all those jobs in special programs for this ill-equipped youngsters.
That money amount? That's just pain silly. It doesn't take into account (1) how much money will be saved in handouts to invaders and (2) how much more tax will be collected and how much less will be benefits paid to US citizens who will fill those jobs.
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