Mass deportation costs [View all]
Published:
October 2, 2024
... Even assuming that 20 percent of the undocumented population would “self-deport” under a yearslong mass-deportation regime, we estimate the ultimate cost of such a longer operation would average out to $88 billion annually, for a total cost of $967.9 billion over the course of more than a decade. This is a much higher sum than the one-time estimate, given the long-term costs of establishing and maintaining detention facilities and temporary camps to eventually be able to detain one million people at a time—costs that could not be modeled in a short-term analysis. This would require the United States to build and maintain 24 times more ICE detention capacity than currently exists. The government would also be required to establish and maintain over 1,000 new immigration courtrooms to process people at such a rate ...
A single year of a million-deportation regime, with its $88 billion price tag, would cost:
Nearly twice the annual budget of the National Institutes of Health.
Nearly four times the budget of NASA.
Nearly three times as much as the federal government spends on child nutrition.
More than the government gives out in the Child Tax Credit program.
Eighteen times more than the entire world spends each year on cancer research ...
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mass-deportation
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