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ICE: Tab to remove illegal residents would approach $100 billion
cnn ^ | 9-12-07

Posted on 09/12/2007 8:29:51 PM PDT by LouAvul

It would cost at least $94 billion to find, detain and remove all 12 million people believed to be staying illegally in the United States, the federal government estimated Wednesday.

Julie Myers, the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, gave the figure during a hearing before a Senate committee Wednesday.

She acknowledged it was based on "very rough calculations."

An ICE spokesman later said the $94 billion did not include the cost of finding illegal immigrants, nor court costs -- dollar amounts that are largely unknowable.

He said the amount was calculated by multiplying the estimated 12 million people by the average cost of detaining people for a day: $97. That was multiplied by the average length of detention: 32 days.

ICE officials also considered transportation costs, which average $1,000 per person.

But that amount can vary widely, the spokesman said. Some deportees are simply driven by bus across the border, while others must take charter planes to distant countries, he said.

Finally, the department looked at personnel costs, bringing the total to roughly $94 billion.

The statistic is likely to become one more piece of fodder in the heated debate between the Bush administration -- which has fought for a "path to citizenship" for people who have lived peaceably in the United States -- and those who want to see more aggressive enforcement of immigration laws, up to, and including, the deportation of all illegal immigrants.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: anchorbaby; crimaliens; healthcare; illegalimmigration; invaders; parasites; thatnumberisbs; welfare; welfarestate; whataboutiraq
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To: LouAvul

Myers is using faulty logic.

As is being proven in State after State, if you begin to tighten the noose on the illegals with hard new laws, many of them will self deport.

That saves us tons of money.


101 posted on 09/13/2007 4:27:41 AM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: LouAvul

Great Investment.


102 posted on 09/13/2007 4:29:49 AM PDT by Paige ("Facts are stubborn things." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: LouAvul
Our problems with the illegals would disappear if the elite in mexico would pay their peons a living wage and furnish the freebies they are getting from the US.
103 posted on 09/13/2007 5:14:10 AM PDT by seemoAR (Absolute power corrupts absolutely)
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To: Sicvee
It wont cost one red cent if they choose to leave on their own.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

104 posted on 09/13/2007 5:18:29 AM PDT by expatguy (Support Conservative Blogging - "An American Expat in Southeast Asia")
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To: clamper1797
Cut ALL benefits to illegals ... Jail and heavily fine anyone who knowingly employees an illegal ... poof problem gone

They cannot cut those benefits, why? Those illegals are keeping social security afloat and they are providing the supposed fiscal conservatives cheap labor. It is bait and switch right now and the amount of social security going out and continuing to rise, a source of NEW money is required in order to fund that scam.

105 posted on 09/13/2007 5:22:21 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: LouAvul

Send the bill to Calderon.


106 posted on 09/13/2007 5:32:33 AM PDT by tom paine 2
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To: LouAvul

Fine. Catch them and confiscate their assets to pay for deportation.


107 posted on 09/13/2007 5:36:06 AM PDT by Little Ray (Rudy Guiliani: If his wives can't trust him, why should we?)
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To: LouAvul

BTW: Once we demonstrate that we’re serious about deporting them, a lot (most?) illegals will deport themselves...


108 posted on 09/13/2007 5:37:03 AM PDT by Little Ray (Rudy Guiliani: If his wives can't trust him, why should we?)
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To: Judith Anne

I like the way you think!!!


109 posted on 09/13/2007 5:39:42 AM PDT by Plains Drifter (If guns kill people, wouldn't there be a lot of dead people at gun shows?)
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To: LouAvul
We've thrown over $114 billion at New Orleans alone for Katrina cleanup. It's really a bargain at $100 billion. The reduced entitlements outlay will repay the cost in under a year. Get with it!
110 posted on 09/13/2007 5:47:38 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: LouAvul

My “Modest Proposal de jure”.

1. Pay bounties on all illegals brought to the nearest police station.
It worked for bandits in the Old West. It can work for banditos all over America.

2. The bounties are paid from the assets of the illegals, with the government only picking up any remainder. Forfeiture could then be rightly used, for once.

3. No more bureaucrats would be necessary, as the general public would happily start turning ‘em in.


111 posted on 09/13/2007 5:54:10 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principle)
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To: LouAvul

The IRS spends more than that keeping tabs on AMERICANS.


112 posted on 09/13/2007 6:05:02 AM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: editor-surveyor
Yup. This is just another twist on the stupid "we can't deport them all" argument for amnesty.
113 posted on 09/13/2007 9:57:44 AM PDT by curiosity
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To: LouAvul

Fine employers, imprison some invaders, the rest will leave for free.


114 posted on 09/13/2007 10:03:35 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
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To: boop
And,

do not forget the cost of their cushy lives in our prisons as compared to home.

115 posted on 09/13/2007 10:17:27 AM PDT by BillT
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To: LouAvul
ICE: Tab to remove illegal residents would approach $100 billion

$100 Billion?
Sounds like a prudent down-payment for a brighter future for the USA.
116 posted on 09/13/2007 10:19:44 AM PDT by VOA
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To: LouAvul
ICE: Tab to remove illegal residents would approach $100 billion

A Bargain!

Get that in writing, get it started ASAP and build the damned fence!

117 posted on 09/13/2007 10:19:46 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: pissant

I also believe like the border fence most of the $100 billion of this cost is for paying lawyers on both sides to get this job done. But what the hell if we can spend billions in Iraq to fix up their infrastructure then we can spend billions here at home.


118 posted on 09/13/2007 10:24:25 AM PDT by Plains Drifter (If guns kill people, wouldn't there be a lot of dead people at gun shows?)
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To: Bonaparte
Especially if they serve those terms at hard labor -- doing the jobs the illegals who fled are too smart to do.

I like the way you think. lol

Former employers of illegals...doing the work we don't want illegals doing.

There's a nice long fence they could work on down south. ;^)

119 posted on 09/13/2007 10:27:30 AM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: LouAvul
It would cost at least $94 billion to find, detain and remove all 12 million people believed to be staying illegally in the United States, the federal government estimated Wednesday.

Bullshi'ite. Put a 1000 dollar bounty on every single one of them and watch how fast they self-deport. 30 million * 1K = 30 billion

120 posted on 09/13/2007 11:39:22 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (“Jesus Saves. Moses Delivers. Cthulu Reposesses...”)
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