Deporting the Undocumented

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Older report but instructive on the costs of deportation ..

Deporting the Undocumented: A Cost Assessment By Rajeev Goyle and David A. Jaeger, Ph.D1

Using publicly available data, this report provides the first cost assessment of a

policy designed to deport all undocumented persons.

Many policymakers on both sides of the aisle dismiss a widespread deportation

policy as impractical and unrealistic. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), chairman of the

Judiciary Committee’s Immigration Subcommittee, recently summarized this view

saying, “[T]he dirty secret is that we couldn’t deport 10 million illegal immigrants if we

wanted to.”5 Surprisingly, however, no public analysis to date has actually provided

quantitative data testing Sen. Cornyn’s assertion.

Using publicly available data, this report provides the first cost assessment of a

policy designed to deport all undocumented persons. We estimate the costs of a mass

deportation effort would likely be at least $206 billion over five years, and could be as

high as $230 billion or more.

We estimate the costs of a mass deportation effort would likely be at least $206 billion over five years,

and could be as high as $230 billion or more. In order not to overstate our estimates, we consistently

make conservative assumptions for key variables; as a result, these estimates in all

likelihood are less than the actual costs if such a policy were to be implemented.

While the net benefits of adopting such a policy are largely speculative, we do

know that spending $41 billion annually over five years ($206 billion in total) would:

1. Exceed the entire budget of the Department of Homeland Security for FY

2006 ($34.2 billion);6

2. Approach the total amount of money requested by the 33 federal agencies

responsible for homeland security activities for FY 2006 ($49.9 billion);7

3. More than double annual spending on border and transportation security

($19.3 billion);8

4. Comprise half the annual cost of the Iraq War ($74 billion);9 and

5. More than double the annual cost of military operations in Afghanistan ($16.8

billion).10

[Pooky 3,784]

So pay nothing. Don't subsidize illegals. Penalize the profiteering employers. Remove the incentive for illegals to be here and many will depart of their own accord.

[peejay 327]

Deportation is only one of many tools to deter illegal immigration. And there is a big difference between actively rounding up millions of illegal aliens vs. deporting illegal aliens encountered on an ad hoc basis.

One thing is for certain...Obama's idiotic policies of refusing to deport any encountered illegal alien except for serious felons and his bloviating for the mass amnesty and pathway to voting citizenship for virtually all others is self serving and disingenuous foolishness.

There have already been 7 illegal alien amnesties. None have detered illegal immigration what-so-ever. In fact, it has encouraged rather than detered it.

Attrition through enforcement is what is needed, not another amnesty. Turn up the heat on illegal employers and illegal workers. The rest will flee back home on their own. They illegal entered or overstayed and can just as easily leave the way they came. No one is stopping them from leaving on their own.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Million dollar fines for anyone that employs them and cut them off from welfare. Watch the exodus.