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Booting all undocumented immigrants could cost at least $400 billion, conservative group says
The Columbus Dispatch ^ | March 20, 2016 | Encarnacion Pyle

Posted on 03/20/2016 9:51:45 AM PDT by kevcol

"The economic and human costs would be tremendous," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the conservative research group's president and an adviser to John McCain during his 2008 presidential campaign.
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Last August, Politico, with help from experts at groups spanning the political spectrum, rang up the costs to carry out the key provisions of Trump's immigration plan, including mass deportation, tripling the number of immigration officers and walling off the southern border, at $166 billion at the low end.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; mccain; openborders; trump
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To: Jim Robinson

Just put a $1 million dollar bounty on each illegal you bring into the weigh station. 30 million illegals = $30 million bucks, not bad....


141 posted on 03/20/2016 1:27:26 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: JMS

+1


142 posted on 03/20/2016 1:32:13 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: central_va

Thats about one years expense of having their worthless hides here.


143 posted on 03/20/2016 1:39:16 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: kevcol

Cut off every single penny of gov subsidy right now including free education and medical, and enforce E-verify, and millions will self deport asap. And the ones in prison won’t need finding, just put them on buses and drive to home country, or airplanes if farther away than MX.

That will take care probably the majority right there.


144 posted on 03/20/2016 1:40:53 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: kevcol

Yes, that may be the COSTS. But what are the SAVINGS for doing so, you moron. Has to be in the trillions.


145 posted on 03/20/2016 1:41:11 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Bender2

Hey get all the free booze from the states and the locals you want. But lay off that toxic swill the feds dole out.


146 posted on 03/20/2016 1:43:00 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: SgtHooper

The savings would off-set the costs.


147 posted on 03/20/2016 1:45:33 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: kevcol

148 posted on 03/20/2016 2:25:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: kevcol

If we would enforce the current immigration rules. most will self-deport, IMO - big time savings by doing what is right


149 posted on 03/20/2016 3:06:30 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: kevcol

It costs more than that to keep them.


150 posted on 03/20/2016 3:10:55 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: kevcol; All

What a bunch of crap. Most will self deport if and when we stop supporting them. Second, illegals are costing us 260 billion a year.


151 posted on 03/20/2016 3:33:58 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: kevcol
No doubt, they didn't subtract the savings from cutting of "Geeb me zat" welfare and incarceration and losses from drunk driving and crime, etc., etc.
152 posted on 03/20/2016 11:27:06 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah: Satan's current alias. "Obama": Allah's current ally...)
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To: Red in Blue PA

No concern for how much it cots to keep them.


153 posted on 03/20/2016 11:41:22 PM PDT by kalee
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To: JMS

If we enforced the laws on the books it would be much less.


154 posted on 03/20/2016 11:42:23 PM PDT by kalee
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To: Red in Blue PA

What do all the freebies they get now cost?


155 posted on 03/21/2016 1:55:57 AM PDT by GailA (any politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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To: kevcol
BFL
156 posted on 03/21/2016 2:01:10 AM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: kevcol

Sounds like a bargain to me.


157 posted on 03/21/2016 3:57:38 AM PDT by Howie66 ("Tone down the tagline please." - Admin Moderator)
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To: kevcol

easily funded by eliminating medicare/medicaid FRAUD.....
BESIDES THEY COST 10 TIMES THAT IN HIDDEN COSTS... AND MURDERS AND RAPES AND VIOLENT CRIME... AND WELFARE AND MEDICAL AND EDUCATION COSTS...

why does the USA ahve to be the safety valve that prevnets these countries from having revolutions that woudl topple the tyrants..
mexico ahs plenty of wealth but it ti concentrated in a few families.... the send their social issues north... and pay off our politicians...


158 posted on 03/21/2016 6:36:27 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: kevcol

Self-deportation:

an approach to dealing with illegal aliens in the United States that involves the creation of legal structures which will make life in the US so difficult as to encourage migrants to voluntarily return to their home countries, rather than organized efforts of law enforcement to locate and deport them.


159 posted on 03/21/2016 8:16:37 AM PDT by donna (Radicalized Christians become missionaries; then, they tell everyone that Jesus loves them!)
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