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Billions for deportation  

redmustang91 64M
7767 posts
2/23/2017 2:58 pm

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2/25/2017 3:57 pm

Billions for deportation


Estimates are $21 billion for the wall against Mexico, $1.56 Billion for 15,000 DHS and CBP officers, About $1 Billion for charter flights of one million aliens to non-Mexico destinations. Billions more for detention centers, more immigration courts and more staff for arrest sweeps... All to eliminate workers the economy can use.

As outlined by the Department of Homeland Security the costs to increase deportations are enormous. They are likely to add billions of dollars to the tab for Trump’s immigration crackdown, on top of the $21 billion that DHS officials estimated to build the wall on the border with Mexico.
Gitis wrote a report last year on what would be required to remove all of the approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants who have been in the United States within two years, as Trump proposed during the campaign: $400 billion to $600 billion.
Trump’s executive order on immigration enforcement signed in January “directed ICE to hire 10,000 officers and agents expeditiously, to carry out enforcement actions. That number is almost double the 5,700 deportation officers that ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations office currently employs. Kelly’s memo calls for Customs and Border Protection department to hire 5,000 more Border Patrol agents; currently the department has about 21,000 agents.
DHS last yearasked for $6.6 million to hire 100 additional officers “to support ICE in apprehending and removing priority alien targets.” Multiply that price tag by 100, and the department is looking at a sum of $660 million to pay for 10,000 more enforcement officers. Meanwhile, DHS requested $3.8 billion to pay for the Border Patrol’s “operational staffing” budget for 21,000 agents. Based on that figure, adding another 5,000 agents would cost about another $900 million.
Those sums don’t cover all of the staffing increases Kelly outlined. His memos also request 500 more Air and Marine border agents, and an undetermined increase in the number of fraud-detection and asylum officers posted at detention facilities near the Mexican border.  Kelly also asked for a “surge” in the hiring of immigration judges and asylum officers at the Department of Justice to evaluate immigration cases. Depending on how many people the government hires for these roles, it could cost hundreds of millions of dollars more.
Gitis also points out that the Kelly memos don’t account for the strain this enforcement surge could put on local police officers. “Most apprehensions currently happen with local police officers,” Local police forces could be pushed to shift priorities away from other efforts.
Holding all of the immigrants that ICE and Border Patrol agents round up could also prove pricey. The Kelly memos direct ICE and Customs and Border Protection to “allocate all available resources to expand their detention capabilities and capacities at or near the border with Mexico to the greatest extent practicable.” But current detention centers—mostly old jails repurposed and run by private contractors—are already over the 34,000 detention-bed quota set by Congress. The Wall Street Journal reported in October that ICE was holding more than 40,000 people. Signing contracts with more private-prison operators would not be cheap. The 2014 contract that the Obama administration signed with Corrections Corporation of America for managing a facility in Dilley, Texas, to house the flood of Central American families crossing the border cost $1 billion over four years.
DHS estimated in its fiscal year 2017 budget request that each adult housed at one of these immigrant detention centers costs an average of $126.46 per day. Immigrants in detention are currently held for an average of about 30 days. Kelly’s memo, however, emphasizes the need to expand short-term detentions.
DHS is expanding who is eligible for what’s called “expedited removal,” where an undocumented immigrant can be sent out of the country without ever seeing a judge. “Under current policy…expedited removal could only be used for people who were apprehended within 100 miles of the border and within 14 days of entering the country,” The new memos say that the removal process can now apply to anyone “who cannot prove they have not been in the U.S. continuously for two years,” he says. That gives the Trump administration a way to reduce costs to hold thousands of people in detention centers.
But it does not erase the costs of transporting people back to their countries of origin. Only about half of the undocumented immigrants currently in the United States are from Mexico, according to the Pew Research Center. Roughly half of the undocumented immigrants need to be flown back to their native countries on charter flights. In a 2015 report, Gitis estimated that it would cost more than $11 billion to transport all of the undocumented immigrants who did not return home on their own. Even sending 1 million of those people back to their countries of origin would cost more than $1 billion.
Republicans in Congress may be eager to prove they are tough on immigration, but fiscal conservatives, particularly in the House, are unlikely to blow up the federal budget to pay for these measures. Adding billions of dollars to the Homeland Security budget to deport undocumented immigrants is bound to start a fight.

redrockrascal 65M
23580 posts
2/23/2017 3:33 pm

The financing of his immigration game has not been well thought out.

The economic impact of his immigration game has not been well thought out.

The enforcement of his immigration game has not been well thought out.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.


tresennui 69F  
2482 posts
2/23/2017 9:47 pm

    Quoting redrockrascal:
    The financing of his immigration game has not been well thought out.

    The economic impact of his immigration game has not been well thought out.

    The enforcement of his immigration game has not been well thought out.
I agree with your thoughts on the subject! And think this entire initiative is abhorrent and uncalled for.

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redmustang91 64M
9760 posts
2/24/2017 8:54 am

Billions of dollars to get rid of people who commit no crimes, work hard, and support the economy. Without these workers we will run out of money for social security and Medicare much sooner.

Costs for food, building remodeling and restaurants and hotels will rise. Who will cut the grass, do the child care, wash the dishes, and fix the cars? Dumb and dumber...

The lost work could push the economy into recession. Bad, bad, bad....


wickedeasy 74F
32404 posts
2/24/2017 11:10 am

his finance committee must be going nuts.

where is all this money coming from?

and yet the fiscal conservative have said nothing???????????????

You cannot conceive the many without the one.


KItkat1415 61F  
20051 posts
2/24/2017 4:02 pm

Obviously, he is making people nervous in his party as he has spent more money than the previous president in a year, just in the first month on security because he doesn't stay in the White House.

#45 doesn't care about being fiscally responsible, which is the very hall mark of the Republican Party. This proves that they should not have let him run as one of their party.

It is obvious that he will bankrupt the country just on deportation and the wall, both immigration policies that the Republicans have tried to stay away from.
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redmustang91 64M
9760 posts
2/25/2017 4:04 am

We need the money to be spent on the worn out infrastructure, lowering the cost of public college education, healthcare for the poor and middle class, and funding Medicare and Social Security. Spending billions to deport hard workers we need and destroying families with US citizen children and spouses is cruel, stupid and will hurt the economy.

Trump just panders to his base of redneck anti immigrant right wingnuts.


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