Lora Ries
With President Trump poised to fulfil his campaign promise to execute the “largest deportation operation in American history,” open-border advocates are looking to undermine him. The latest straw they’ve grasped on to is the claim that it would cost the U.S government $88 billion per year to arrest, detain, process, and remove one million removable aliens.
This is a wrong-headed approach for two reasons.
First and foremost, you can’t put a price on the safety and well-being of the American people. The Left’s attempt to make deportation about money shows how out of touch they are, which is one of the reasons they were beaten so handily by President Trump earlier this month.
The second reason is that any serious discussion about the monetary cost of deportation must be had in the context of the cost of mass migration, and that’s not something the Left wants to talk about.
What Everyone Is Missing in the Argument Over Mass Deportation
Let me explain. While the Left’s $88 billion figure is merely an estimate, the Right can point to billions and billions of dollars that the Biden-Harris administration has already spent to entice and resettle migrants and give them handouts. States and localities, who are shouldering the bulk of the burden of the open-borders status quo, are also suffering.
Consider, for example, that, from fiscal year 2021 through FY2024, the State Department received approximately $22 billion for migration and refugee assistance.
These funds were used to: address mass migration operations abroad; deal with the fall-out from the reckless Afghanistan withdrawal, including bringing unvetted Afghans directly to the U.S.; resettle Ukrainians in the U.S.; build processing centers (“Safe Mobility Offices”) in Central America to process and facilitate mass migration to the U.S.; and pay the likes of UNHCR, the International Organization for Migration, and other NGOs, » Read More
https://www.heritage.org/border-security/commentary/america-about-show-the-world-the-benefits-mass-deportations