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  • ICE: Tab to remove illegal residents would approach $100 billion

    09/12/2007 8:29:51 PM PDT · by LouAvul · 133 replies · 1,340+ views
    cnn ^ | 9-12-07
    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...