Posted on 04/30/2026 6:40:50 AM PDT by Starman417
I saw a video a few weeks ago of Markwayne Mullin, the new DHS Secretary on Laura Ingraham’s show. He stated that it costs more than $18,000 per deportee to remove an illegal from the United States. If you’re thinking that’s because we’re giving them swag bags and first-class tickets home, you’d be wrong. At least that would be fast. No, the $18,000 is what it costs to navigate an illegal through the justice system because of the labyrinth of laws and the hoops judicial activist “judges’ make the government jump through.
Mullins encourages us to imagine the cost of doing that to the twenty million illegals allowed in during the Biden administration. That would be $360 billion! And there would still be another 30 million illegals in the country.
All of this reminded me of a conversation I was having with a young person recently about the cost of illegals to the country. In this case, we were talking about housing. I mentioned that one of the reasons that housing was so expensive is because there are 50 million illegals in the United States, and despite California’s insane Homeless Industrial Complex, most of them are not living on the streets, there or anywhere else. They are living in homes.
The population of the United States is approximately 350 million people, living in approximately 148 million housing units. That is an average of 2.4 people living in each house / apartment. Immigrants typically have a larger number of people living in their homes, according to Pew, 3.5. Using that number, the 50 million illegal aliens in the United States live in 14 million homes / apartments. If those 50 million illegals were not here, the housing stock available for American citizens and other legal residents would increase by almost 10%. To put that in perspective, on average, the net number of new homes / apartments to hit the market each year is about 1.5 million.
Needless to say, if an inventory of 14 million units were freed up over a 3-5 year period, the cost of housing across America would drop significantly. There would, of course, be consequences to that, given that real estate is a key element of so many Americans’ net worth, particularly older individuals. But it would be only one of the effects of removing 50 million illegals.
Others include education, healthcare, welfare and of course, criminal justice and jobs.
Let’s take education. Schools spend on average $16,500 per pupil educating their charges. There are approximately five million children of illegals living in the United States and going to school. Five million students times $16,500 equals $80 billion for education. That number is actually conservative because the majority of illegals live in urban areas, where governments spend far more than average on schooling.
FAIR, the Foundation for American Immigration Reform, a relatively anti-illegal immigration organization estimates that the United States spent $41 billion in 2023 on healthcare for illegal aliens and their children. For some unknown reason, that number is based on the laughably low 15 million illegals. But we’ll keep it to give them the benefit of the doubt.
According to CIS, the Center for Immigration Studies, the average number of immigrant families receiving welfare is extraordinary. For perspective, 27% of the US born households receive some sort of welfare spending. Among immigrants it’s… slightly higher. Among Afghan families, it’s 87%, Dominican Republic families 78%, Guatemala 77%, El Salvador 75%, Honduras 75%, Ecuador 70%, Mexico 67%, etc. As bad as these numbers are, in reality, they understate the problem. Ostensibly, illegal aliens are not supposed to receive benefits, but they do, and do so at higher rates than legal immigrant families, which are included in the above numbers. As such, the above numbers are averages of both and, therefore, are lower than the percentages of illegal alien families on welfare. CIS estimates that taken together, illegal aliens cost American taxpayers $42 billion annually.
Then there’s crime.
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Who is giving them 18,000 bucks? They came here without any money. They sure as hell can walk home without any money. The is BS. Give them a sack of tortillas and a few cans of SPAM. They can fatten up again when they get to the Darien Gap.
Every illegal has redundant organs that the body can lose.
Those organs are worth a lot to US citizens.
Illegals can partially pay for their imprisonment and other costs by giving them up.
This is a classic example of supply and demand: when more people are competing for a limited number of homes, prices rise. This creates inflation in the housing sector.
They don’t get the 18 grand. That is the cost of the bureaucracy that deports them.
I wonder how much Biden wasted to import the bastards to America.
“The population of the United States is approximately 350 million people, living in approximately 148 million housing units. That is an average of 2.4 people living in each house / apartment. Immigrants typically have a larger number of people living in their homes, according to Pew, 3.5. Using that number, the 50 million illegal aliens in the United States live in 14 million homes / apartments. If those 50 million illegals were not here, the housing stock available for American citizens and other legal residents would increase by almost 10%.”
They tend to live in much larger households.
They often live with legal relatives.
That 10% is more like 2% that could be freed up.
We need to limit the ability of Democrats to buy votes by placing middle-class tax caps in the federal constitution.
Enter in bills for two constitutional amendments, perhaps:
Levies on any residential property of less than 2799 square feet of finished living space shall be no higher than the 2019 dollar amounts for the property, or for a newer or since resold property no higher than what it would have been levied at for 2019 if it lacked owner specific tax breaks, increased by 3% per calendar year since 2019 and by any percentage increase to its finished living space.
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Federal taxation on personal income shall be progressively capped as follows:
below 20% of the median federal full-time civilian employee compensation amount, 10%,
below 50% of the median federal full-time civilian employee compensation amount, 22%,
below the median federal full-time civilian employee compensation amount, 30%,
below the average federal full-time civilian employee compensation of the 100,000 largest recipients, 35%,
below the average federal full-time civilian employee compensation of the 10,000 largest recipients, 40%.
Fighting in Congress to send middle-class income and property taxation cap constitutional amendments to the states would make Congress turn deep red come 2027.
The high-income people have the Laffer Curve effect to protect them.
If we ramp up scale then the per deportee cost should drop.
Fly them on Spirit.
Plane tickets home don’t cost 18,000 dollars. It seems people always have to make a simple task expensive. So therefore, we can do nothing.
Illegal? Get OUT!!!
I like the way you think!
I just thought of a way to save money while deportations continue.
How much of the $18k is due to non-compliance by local law enforcement?
"The average lifetime fiscal cost of an illegal immigrant to the United States is estimated at $68,000 to $70,000, based on analyses adjusting for education level and tax contributions versus public service usage."
I suspect that number is far higher.
Make it very costly, including your freedom to employ them, give them any welfare or House them.
Once the money is gone, they will find their own way home
The trouble with the new era illegal aliens is they came here to party on the taxpayers’ dimes and they have no intention of getting a job and working. They came here to run for the U.S. Congress once they learned that the Gringos are dumb and ignorant enough to elect them. The Gringos will vote for them for the price of one street taco or a bowl of nachos.
Their home country should be Billed the cost
Or $3,000 if they leave through the app.
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