How many billions in welfare, health care & education costs would the nation save if it deported illegals?

If it deported 12 million illegals and illegals only leached 1,000 dollars a month for their free services then it would save America 1 billion 440 thousand dollars in just year


(12,000,000 x 12,000 (1,000 per month) over 10 years that would be 10 billion dollars!|||I would have to agree. Common sense would tell you that it's far cheaper to deport than to raise, care for, shelter, educate and feed for decades.





I'm not talking a shoddy deportation, either. You can get a ticket from Seattle, WA to Mexico City with the Greyhound bus line for around $300. Or you can fly from NY city to Mexico City for around $410.





Regan might've legalized 3 million, but that was almost 30 years ago and the economy wasn't like it is now.





Edit: We have several places that employs them and the primary reason is because the employer can get away with paying below minimum wage. Most Americans can't work for that because they have bills and families to support. If we deport the workers, employers will be forced to pay adequate wages. Many companies in this area wouldn't take a hit anywhere aside from management pay and bonuses. We have people competing for jobs at fast food and retail places because there literally aren't any other jobs. I very much blame employers with that situation, not just illegals.|||But it would be easier and cheaper if we encouraged them to self-deport.





1. No non-life saving healthcare.





2. Fine employers 10,000 per head for hiring illegals. Revoke the business licenses of repeat violators. Make knowingly hiring illegals a felony and imprison those who employ them.





3. No social services for illegals, period.





4. No birthright citizenship for the children of illegals.





5. Mandatory 10 year exclusion from application for citizenship or work visas for any people who are found to be here illegally.





6. Deport. Deport. Deport. Deport all illegals, regardless of circumstances, when ever and where ever they are found.|||Obama Signs Border Security Bill


WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Friday signed a bill directing $600 million more to securing the U.S.-Mexico border, a modest election-year victory that underscores his failure so far to deliver an overhaul of immigration law.





The new law will pay for the hiring of 1,000 more Border Patrol agents to be deployed at critical areas, as well as more Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. It provides for new communications equipment and greater use of unmanned surveillance drones. The Justice Department gets more money to help catch drug dealers and human traffickers.





http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/1008/100819salt鈥?/a>


158 arrested in Utah's largest ever ICE-led gang enforcement action


Authorities credit new multi-agency task force for record arrests





SALT LAKE CITY - A total of 158 gang members and individuals with gang ties, including many with prior criminal records, are facing new criminal charges or deportation following a four-month, multi-agency anti-gang surge spearheaded by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) that represents the largest operation of its kind ever carried out in the state.





The number of illegal aliens removed from the United States by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is UP, not down.





FY 2009 was 298,401 individuals, UP from 264,541 in FY 2008.





Discretionary spending on border security went from $7.9 billion in 2008; to $9.8 billion in 2009; and to $10.1 billion in fiscal year 2010.





There are more border enforcement agents on the border than ANY time in the history of this country.





U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has levied a RECORD $3 million in civil fines on businesses that hired unauthorized immigrants.|||Let's use your numbers 10 billion dollars over ten years.


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Cost too deport one time 166,000 * 12 million = 1,992,000,0000 almost 2 trillion. Using the cost to deport from the GOP web site.





We spent 50 billion dollars last year including a 3 billion dollar special appropriation to buy some votes(1). The actual number deported 298,410(2) at a cost of ~ 166 thousand per deportee. So an extra billion would be about 5968 additional deportees. No word on how many of those are already back.





I think my source is exceedingly acceptable to Republicans.





1. http://www.gop.gov/bill/111/1/hr2892


2. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/7117鈥?/a>|||It was 12 Million 7yrs ago more like 20 today. Here in the Keys the Free housing is full to the top and new 1s being built . Section 8 housing at $1000 per month having anchor baby's like rabbits free medical and school. It's out of control there are no jobs here and the 1s there are are held by Latinos of some sort.Even the Banks are employing them.Fishing has changed and most know are Latinos.NOV vote out the Amnesty for illegals bleeding hearts.|||The USA would save $2.2 Trillion dollars ( and this was 3 years ago )............INVASION USA





$2.2 trillion illegal alien taxpayer sticker shock ; 2/3 of immigrants cost Americans $22,449 a year, shows new study





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WASHINGTON 鈥?Someone has finally fixed an approximate taxpayer cost of between 12 million and 15 million illegal aliens residing in the U.S.





A new study by the Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector found a household headed by an individual without a high school education, including about two-thirds of illegal aliens, costs U.S. taxpayers more than $32,000 in federal, state and local benefits. That same family contributes an average of $9,000 a year in taxes, resulting in a net tax burden of $22,449 each year.





Over the course of the household's lifetime that tax burden translates to $1.1 million.





If the lower figure of 12 million illegal aliens is used for estimation purposes, the total tax burden translates to $2.2 trillion.





"Would any of us buy shares in a company that we knew would produce a loss of a million dollars a share," asks Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, in response to the study. "Cheap labor is not cheap at the cost of over a million dollars per head of household."





Rector's study, "The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Households to the U.S. Taxpayer," examines the economics of the 17.7 million American households made up of people without a high-school degree. Using numbers from the Census Bureau, the Congressional Research Service, the Bureau of Labor Standards and other government agencies, Rector determined what they earn, what they spend and what they receive in government services.





About half of the 17.7 million households studied are illegal aliens. About two-thirds of illegal alien households are headed by someone without a high school degree. Only 10 percent of native-born Americans fit into that category.





"Over the next ten years the total cost of low-skill households to the taxpayer (immediate benefits minus taxes paid) is likely to be at least $3.9 trillion," Rector writes. "This number would go up significantly if changes in immigration policy lead to substantial increases in the number of low-skill immigrants entering the country and receiving services."|||Nightowl has a very valid point, just like in the big cities of Texas a very Republican stronghold, building of new roads and houses and any general construction trades and other wise would grind to a halt!!!





I am not saying that it is right for these people to be here, but you can see that this situation is of our own making, just deporting these people would create another problem, ie who would do the work that these people do and how much would it cost?|||Seems you have fallen prey to a viral e-mail that's been going around. A very false and distorted viral e-mail.





More recently, a 2007 report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office examined 29 reports on state and local costs published over 15 years in an attempt to answer this question. CBO concluded that most of the estimates determined that illegal immigrants impose a net cost to state and local governments but "that impact is most likely modest." CBO said "no agreement exists as to the size of, or even the best way of measuring, that cost on a national level.





http://www.factcheck.org/2009/04/cost-of鈥?/a>|||Another day and yet another Con neglects to do the other other half of the equation....you know the part that says how much replacing illegal labor with born in the USA labor is going to cost us.


Or do you want American workers to work and try to survive on the same wage benefit packages that the illegals currently do ?|||Republicans need illegals to help the corporations maintain low wages and higher profits. Big business donates millions to the republican party.|||We would have more than THREE TRILLION in the bank if we hadn't started two illegal wars.