Booting all undocumented immigrants could cost at least $400 billion, conservative group says

The Columbus Dispatch ^ | March 20, 2016 | Encarnacion Pyle

[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.

[TheConservativeBanker]

Small price to preserve a nation.

[C19fan]

Holtz-Eakin is K street whore of the Chamber of Commerce. The guy has defended the favorable hedge fund carried interest tax break on places like National Review.

[matthew fuller]

https://www.numbersusa.com/

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html

[Rik0Shay]

That and a few other enforcement provisions would do the deed.

[EnglishOnly]

I can’t think of a better way to spend 400 Billion!

[bgill]

Put the fines for hiring illegals, housing illegals, schooling illegals and providing sanctuary like cities and churches and we’d be making a profit for the short term. It won’t take long before they self deport. Problems solved.

[hsmomx3]

Exactly....400 billion is a small price compared to having them here and giving them all the perks! Maybe they can all go hang out at the Soros residence.

[AU72]

Addition by subtraction.

[ichabod1]

Sheriff Joe has demonstrated how you can bring those costs down. Why can’t I ever learn to spell the word ‘sheriff’?

[jmaroneps37]

And save a net TRILLION so just GFY “conservative” = phony and liar in my book so I don’t put any stock in what this bunch says.

[AndyJackson]

It’s priceless.

[moehoward]

“I think self-deportation is key.”

Always is, and plenty will. When Trump wins AZ the warning shots will be fired. When he wins CA, they’ll start leaving.

[C19fan]

$400 billion/13 million illegals = $30,769 per deportee. BS!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Booting all undocumented immigrants could cost at least $400 billion, conservative group says

OK, I'll assume for a second that this $400 billion number is based on some substance, and not just pulled out of a random bodily orifice - if we do boot all of the illegal aliens, how many hundreds of billions of dollars will we save in jobs retained for US citizens, lower welfare costs, fewer uninsured medical treatments, lower crime and imprisonment costs? Should easily offset $400 billion.

Oh, and advice for "conservative groups" who want to be taken seriously - stop buying in to leftist Orwellian double-speak. They aren't "undocumented immigrants". They are illegal aliens. An undocumented immigrant is an immigrant who entered the US legally and then lost his passport.

[Lopeover]

Calculated in inflated bitcoins!

[King Moonracer]

$400 billion over 20 years is cheaper than if they stay.

[skimbell]

If done properly it won't cost a dime.

JUST ENFORCE THE LAWS!.

Three easy steps:

1. If you are here illegally and we catch you, you go to jail.

2. If you are working here illegally and we catch you, you and your employer go to jail.

3. If you are here illegally and own/rent a house/apt. and we catch you, you and your mortgage holder/landlord go to jail.

If our government would do this, you'd be trampled by "self deporting" illegals crossing our southern boarder within a month.

Problem solved.

[Don Corleone]

Booting all undocumented immigrants could cost at least $400 billion, conservative group says

As Roosevelt once said, "We only owe it to ourselves". So, why worry....right?

[Yashcheritsiy]

So like, what, one year’s worth of welfare?

[EinNYC]

And it would likely save several times that amount by eliminating welfare, food stamp, medical, education, housing, etc. payments for these parasites AND their “anchor babies”.