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What is Cain's plan on deportation? Bachmann's plan? details on how they are going to round em up and head em out? millions? secure the borders..fine and we all agree on that...doing away with the magnets is also fine and we all agree with that but still all the illegals here are NOT going to leave. HOW do we pay for deportation? "How Much Does it Cost to Deport 392,000 People? By Elise Foley Thursday, October 07, 2010 at 4:08 pm 12 Comments Share53 Roughly $9.2 billion, according to figures from a March report on the per-immigrant cost of each step of the removal process. The numbers are estimates, of course, but it is still useful to illustrate the high costs behind the record number of deportations the DHS announced yesterday. There are a number of costs involved in the removal process. First, illegal immigrants must be apprehended, which requires local law enforcement, Border Patrol and a number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement programs and offices. Next, they must be detained, and then processed through the legal system. Finally, illegal immigrants must be transported back to their native countries. Here are the per-person costs listed in the Center for American Progress report released in March: Apprehension: $18,310 Detention: $3,355 Legal processing: $817 Transportation: $1,000 In total, that’s $23,480 for each of the 392,000 people the U.S. removed last year, or $9,204,944,000. Of course, many of those deported were convicted criminals, meaning they would have had imposed high costs had they remained in the country. While numbers vary from state to state, on average it costs at least $60 per day (or $1,800 per month) to incarcerate prisoners. this problem has been allowed to fester for years and under both parties. Reagan granted amnesty to thousands but there was supposed to be a tight security and border control follow up that never took place.