What Would It Cost to Deport Illegal Aliens?
Imagine that you came home tomorrow and found a stranger living in your home. Would you pay $148 to have him removed, or would you instead just legally adopt him and give him the run of the place to save the $148? The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C., thinks the “practical” thing to do would be adopt the “undocumented family member” that broke into your home. At least, that is what I can extrapolate from the report they released last week purporting to document the true cost of deporting –rather than amnestying– the 10 million illegal aliens that have smuggled themselves into our homeland over the past two decades. According to the study, which was dutifully reported by the Washington Post and others, it would cost the Federal Government $41 billion per year over the next five years to take the “draconian” step of actually enforcing our immigration laws. …The Federal Government has an annual budget of $2.34 trillion per year. Our Gross Domestic
