Is the cost of deporting illegal aliens worth it?
Monday, April 30th, 2012We spent ~ 50 billion dollars last year including a 3 billion dollar special appropriation to buy some votes(1). The actual number deported 298,410(2) at a cost of ~ 166 thousand per deportee. So an extra billion would be about 5968 additional deportees. No word on how many of those are already back. The latest low estimates are that there are 10 million illegals in the country now, and you know deporting them is going to cost a little more the few there are and the harder it is to find them but just going with that number would mean the cost to deport them all would be 1.755 trillion or about half of the 2010 budget.
That says nothing about the cost of keeping them from coming back.
I think my source is exceedingly acceptable to Republicans.
1. http://www.gop.gov/bill/111/1/hr2892
2. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/71179
So we would have borrow 1.75 trillion.
That would increase the federal budget by almost half.




