Deporting the Undocumented: A Cost Assessment
Friday, August 05, 2005
- Organization: Center for American Progress
- Link: http://www.americanprogress.org
This report from the Center for American Progress provides the first-ever estimate of the costs of a policy designed to deport all undocumented persons currently in the United States and those who successfully crossed the border (approximately 10 million people). Using publicly available data, the authors estimate the costs of a mass deportation effort to be at least $206 billion over five years ($41.2 billion annually), and could be as high as $230 billion or more.
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