Enforcing any law is way to expensive. Let's just do away with the police, courts and prisons.
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 ...
I can do it for a lot less.
1. Turn off the magnet.
2. No more baby (auto citizenship)dropping after crossing the border. With that goes anchor minors.
3. Everything you own - if you are illegal is confiscated with notice(fruit of a tainted tree).
As an aside I would like to see their numbers. I have slashed many a budget and I know that the numbers are not even close to real until their voices have risen by at least two octaves.
As an aside, welfare and food stamps would drop along with several other departments such as the department of corrections. That would off set it.
Good point. Tax wire transfers to Mexico made by those lacking proof of legal presence in the U.S. Spend the money on deportations.
After V-E Day, the army somehow managed to bring home hundreds of thousands of GIs in a fairly short period, peaking at just over 400k during Sept ‘44. Our population then was less than half what it is now.
Take Away All The Free Stuff and most will go home
Simple solution: eliminate food stamps and use its money to deport.
Gee, that wasn’t hard at all.
Just cut off the freebies.
If I’m not mistaken you can declare illegals as a threat to national security and take the courts out of the picture.
When caught they wouldn’t get to go before the court at taxpayers expense, courts don’t have a say over national security.
Send them back home with the clothes on their backs and the govt keeps everything they own.
Watch how many self deport.
Using that same argument, we should stop arresting burglars, rapists, drunk drivers, etc. because we can’t catch them all.
Enforcing any law is way to expensive. Let's just do away with the police, courts and prisons.
Eliminate the incentives and you won’t have to deport.
In fact, without the freebies, let ‘em stay and work!
Just like winning a revolution against the British Empire, and its attendant military might, isn’t viable either.
Oh, wait . . .
Sounds like a plan.
Still less than the Obamunists pissed away in a SINGLE YEAR of Porkulus.
Amazing that is always overlooked. I'd love to see what it actually cost AZ for SB1070.
I can?? Then why don't I? ;-)
Just proof they should have prevented them from coming in the first place.
Allowing all these people in to the US is racist against those other countries, we are robbing them of their people and their intellect. How are these countries ever going to thrive without their people?
Here is how it is done you defeatist quisling bastards:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html
Get elected president and you can.
Good idea. I'm putting it on my list of things to do. Thanks.
The fines from the companies will help offset those expenses of deportation.
And another 4-Bil to finish the fence would greatly decrease the costs of
deportation by depriving illegals the entry point in the first place.
My name is MaxMax, and I'm not even a rocket scientist.
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