Booting all undocumented immigrants could cost at least $400 billion, conservative group says

The Columbus Dispatch ^ | March 20, 2016 | Encarnacion Pyle

[central_va]

Just put a $1 million dollar bounty on each illegal you bring into the weigh station. 30 million illegals = $30 million bucks, not bad....

[Bigg Red]

+1

[Georgia Girl 2]

Thats about one years expense of having their worthless hides here.

[little jeremiah]

Cut off every single penny of gov subsidy right now including free education and medical, and enforce E-verify, and millions will self deport asap. And the ones in prison won’t need finding, just put them on buses and drive to home country, or airplanes if farther away than MX.

That will take care probably the majority right there.

[SgtHooper]

Yes, that may be the COSTS. But what are the SAVINGS for doing so, you moron. Has to be in the trillions.

[Jim W N]

Hey get all the free booze from the states and the locals you want. But lay off that toxic swill the feds dole out.

[apocalypto]

The savings would off-set the costs.

[DoughtyOne]

[elpadre]

If we would enforce the current immigration rules. most will self-deport, IMO - big time savings by doing what is right

[<1/1,000,000th%]

It costs more than that to keep them.

[Cobra64]

What a bunch of crap. Most will self deport if and when we stop supporting them. Second, illegals are costing us 260 billion a year.

[TXnMA]

No doubt, they didn't subtract the savings from cutting of "Geeb me zat" welfare and incarceration and losses from drunk driving and crime, etc., etc.

[kalee]

No concern for how much it cots to keep them.

[kalee]

If we enforced the laws on the books it would be much less.

[GailA]

What do all the freebies they get now cost?

[Chgogal]

BFL

[Howie66]

Sounds like a bargain to me.

[zzwhale]

easily funded by eliminating medicare/medicaid FRAUD.....
BESIDES THEY COST 10 TIMES THAT IN HIDDEN COSTS... AND MURDERS AND RAPES AND VIOLENT CRIME... AND WELFARE AND MEDICAL AND EDUCATION COSTS...

why does the USA ahve to be the safety valve that prevnets these countries from having revolutions that woudl topple the tyrants..
mexico ahs plenty of wealth but it ti concentrated in a few families.... the send their social issues north... and pay off our politicians...

[donna]

Self-deportation:

an approach to dealing with illegal aliens in the United States that involves the creation of legal structures which will make life in the US so difficult as to encourage migrants to voluntarily return to their home countries, rather than organized efforts of law enforcement to locate and deport them.