Trump’s Deportation Plan Would Cost at Least $400 Billion

Washington Free Beacon ^ | 4/4/16 | Ali Meyer

[Haiku Guy]

Plan would take at least 20 years to implement.

Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s plan to deport all undocumented immigrants would cost between $400 billion and $600 billion and take at least 20 years to implement, according to a report from the American Action Forum.

The report estimates that there are currently 11.3 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States. To deport them, these individuals would have to be apprehended, detained, legally processed, and transported back to the country they originated from.

In order to do this in two years like Trump has proposed, the report estimates that there would need to be 90,582 federal immigration apprehension employees, 348,831 immigration detention beds, 1,316 immigration courts, 32,445 federal attorneys to process undocumented immigrants, and a minimum of 17,296 chartered flights and 30,701 chartered bus trips.

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[Haiku Guy]

I don't know who the American Action Forum is, but I know BS when I smell it.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Deport a few thousand and the rest will follow on their own.
This is what happened when Ike did it.

[V_TWIN]

get rid of obamacare and it’s a push.

[Buckeye McFrog]

And the cost of not deporting them is??

[Dr. Sivana]

Trump’s plan costs $400 billion dollars, ONCE. The financial and social costs of massive illegal immigration are many billions . . . year after year, and compounding.

[Blood of Tyrants]

We spend $100 billion each year to give them free healthcare, feed, house, educate, and imprison them.

[showme_the_Glory]

Let’s get started ASAP

[PGR88]

More fake calculations from the apparatchiks.

They can create any number they want to support their talking points. Remember the phony numbers created for Obamacare? created for “cap and trade?”

[BitWielder1]

Anything will be prohibitively expensive when you deliberately choose the most expensive way to do it, just to make a point.

[Blue Jays]

Sounds like a true bargain to me.
Just ask the family of Kate Steinle.

[FrankR]

I don’t believe it. Keeping them here would cost a lot more than that, food, housing, and other things for 70+ years.

But, libs never look beyond tomorrow, so the article is par for the course.

[V_TWIN]

“Plan would take at least 20 years to implement”

RIIIIGHT.

[Rodm]

Of course it would save 2.3 Trillion in welfare savings

[null and void]

And how much would not deporting them cost?

[null and void]

As you say...

[Vigilanteman]

Ike’s administration managed to do it in 18 months with Operation Wetback. And it cost pocket change because they deputized local law enforcement.

[libertylover]

Sounds high, but if we can get our country back for $400 billion, then it’s still a long-term bargain.

[Just mythoughts]

There is NO way to calculate the savings of sending home illegal invaders.. How dare these gods and goddess of government think they have the right to diminish the rights of American citizens. Bunch of devils.

[Squeako]

A bargain at twice the price.

[boycott]

I would image that’s a lot cheaper than what illegals currently cost us. Put me down for YES.