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April 5, 2016
Report: Trump's deportation plan will cost $400 billion
See also: Calling BS on the $400 billion estimate for Trump’s plan to deal with illegals
The American Action Forum, a non profit policy research organization, published an analysis of Donald Trump's plan to deport all illegal aliens in the US. They estimate that the plan would cost between $400-600 billion and take 20 years to complete.
Washington Free Beacon:
The report estimates that there are currently 11.3 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States. To deport them, these individuals would have to be apprehended, detained, legally processed, and transported back to the country they originated from.
In order to do this in two years like Trump has proposed, the report estimates that there would need to be 90,582 federal immigration apprehension employees, 348,831 immigration detention beds, 1,316 immigration courts, 32,445 federal attorneys to process undocumented immigrants, and a minimum of 17,296 chartered flights and 30,701...(Read Full Post)