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Booting all undocumented immigrants could cost at least $400 billion, conservative group says
The Columbus Dispatch ^ | March 20, 2016 | Encarnacion Pyle

Posted on 03/20/2016 9:51:45 AM PDT by kevcol

"The economic and human costs would be tremendous," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the conservative research group's president and an adviser to John McCain during his 2008 presidential campaign.
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Last August, Politico, with help from experts at groups spanning the political spectrum, rang up the costs to carry out the key provisions of Trump's immigration plan, including mass deportation, tripling the number of immigration officers and walling off the southern border, at $166 billion at the low end.

(Excerpt) Read more at dispatch.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; mccain; openborders; trump
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To: kevcol
NOT booting all these undocumented immigrants illegal aliens costs us more than $400 billion a year in welfare benefits alone stolen from the US Taxpayers... every year!

Getting rid of all these illegal aliens for only $400 billion would be the bargain of a lifetime.

101 posted on 03/20/2016 10:55:37 AM PDT by Gritty (Freedom begins with speaking truth. A muzzle is a muzzle even if it is made of silk.-Viktor Orban)
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To: umgud

Considering SCOTUS doesn’t understand STATE EXCHANGES means States exchanges, nor that ‘shall not be infringed’ means exactly that; I don’t recall any ruling that ‘and subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ meant anything but the simple English of the 14th.

Ergo, bloviating that ‘anchor babies’ are a real thing != true.

Course, the indoctrination (aka education) being that which it is....


102 posted on 03/20/2016 10:56:56 AM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: kevcol

And how much would it SAVE?


103 posted on 03/20/2016 10:57:36 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Red in Blue PA

$400 Billion?

That all?

OK. Let’s start today.


104 posted on 03/20/2016 10:57:52 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: Gritty

Will cost next to nothing. Cut off their pubic benefits, medical care, education, and employment and offer free exit transportation. End of problem.


105 posted on 03/20/2016 10:57:52 AM PDT by anton
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To: Red in Blue PA

Furthermore, what does it cost to have them in the country?


106 posted on 03/20/2016 10:59:24 AM PDT by Parmy (I)
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To: Leaning Right

We as a nation are fast approaching a time when these criminals will not be dealt with by law enforcement.
They survivors will self deport when the good citizens stop putting up with catch and release.


107 posted on 03/20/2016 11:00:07 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: kevcol
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108 posted on 03/20/2016 11:00:16 AM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: manc
Yea, because giving welfare, paying for education, health, dental, food and the cost of people losing lives sure is more than actually enforcing the law.

Yeah and all those $Billions they send to Mexico would stop.

So lets look at the "unintended consequences" from north of the Trump wall.

1. Billions of dollars of free money flowing to Mexico stops

2. Millions of Mexican citizens and many criminals arrive in Mexico

3. Crime rate in Mexico goes up

4. Mexico responds by increasing taxes

5. With the Trump wall in place, lucrative trans Mexico illegal immigrant path is stopped

6. Many south American and "third worlders" stuck in Mexico

7. Crime rate goes up again

8. Lucrative drug trade from Mexico stopped

9. Drug gang wars intensify in Mexico

10 Crime rate goes up again

11. Tourism to Mexico stops dead (no pun intended)

12. Companies like Ford, Nabisco, Carrier and also some Mexican companies start RELOCATING to North America.

13. Trump wins second term in a landslide.

109 posted on 03/20/2016 11:00:55 AM PDT by spokeshave (Somewhere there is a ceiling for Trump.....Yeah, it's called The Oval Office)
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To: Jim Robinson

McCain, like all too many long resident Republicans inside the beltway, is a CINO - Conservative In Name Only.

Every time I see a picture of one of those people or hear them speak I think CINO and go do something else more enjoyable. Having a tooth extracted with the use of pain killers comes immediately to mind.


110 posted on 03/20/2016 11:01:15 AM PDT by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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To: manc

Hi manc, Yea JUST ENFORCE the damn laws and they will go home in droves!!! VERY SIMPLE!!!!


111 posted on 03/20/2016 11:02:10 AM PDT by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: kevcol

How much for putting teeth in prohibitions of them being able to work, invalidating their drivers licenses, drying up their freebies and doing away with the sanctuary cities crap?

There’s your wall.


112 posted on 03/20/2016 11:02:35 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: JMS

There is an additional, hidden price, associated with every immigrant, particularly the illegal ones. It is the money that they remove from our economy and ship home to their relatives.

Economies are based on money circulation. Every dollar sent overseas supports some other economy and not ours. It makes no difference if the dollars are “lost” due to foreign aid or personal transfers -they aren’t circulating inside the US and helping our economy.


113 posted on 03/20/2016 11:04:30 AM PDT by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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To: kevcol

That would be cheaper than keeping them. Just get them out of America.


114 posted on 03/20/2016 11:06:18 AM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: kevcol

yes it will cost a lot ONE TIME- but illegals in this country cost this country between $400 BILLION and $600 BILLION Every Single Year! Get them out of this country, and they no longer cost us this amount every single year


115 posted on 03/20/2016 11:08:01 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: kevcol

I’ll write a 5 figure check to start the collection rolling. These bastards have to go. Start over legally or get out - no ifs, ands, or buts.


116 posted on 03/20/2016 11:12:08 AM PDT by RobertClark (My shrink just killed himself - he blamed me in his note!)
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To: kevcol

I have an idea. Put arrested illegal immigrants on a chain gang to build the wall. Lots of them are skilled in the building trades from years of work in the US.

That would reduce the labor costs for the wall to bed and board—and might be instructive to anyone thinking about entering the US illegally.


117 posted on 03/20/2016 11:12:25 AM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

$113 million per year should be $113 billion. My bad.


118 posted on 03/20/2016 11:14:51 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Prendre cinq et rendre quatre ce n'est pas donner.)
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To: Bender2; kevcol; big'ol_freeper; Impy; SevenofNine; Cletus.D.Yokel; Rummyfan; Liberty Valance; ...

I’ll see you and raise you.

Get rid of unconstitutional socialism which induces government dependence including unconstitutional welfare as we know it, unconstitutional government “health care” (more like “death watch”), and unconstitutional general government “entitlements” ALTOGETHER.

Those who want freedom will stay, those who want government dependence will leave.


119 posted on 03/20/2016 11:20:04 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: kevcol

Fine with me. It’s not a Trillion like everything else.
: )


120 posted on 03/20/2016 11:24:18 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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