ICE: Tab to remove illegal residents would approach $100 billion – Estimate doesn’t include cost of finding illegal immigrants, nor court costs + Department of Homeland Security’s annual budget is only about $35 billion
Tagged: deportation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), rememberPosted on: September 13th, 2007“It would cost at least $94 billion to find, detain and remove all 12 million people believed to be staying illegally in the United States, the federal government estimated Wednesday.
Julie Myers, the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, gave the figure during a hearing before a Senate committee Wednesday.”
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