Trumps mass deportations have arrived. But will Repubs pay for them? est 4 Billion/yr!!
All Trumpy has to say--I will keep America safe again--and the taxpayer will get zapped!
Trump’s mass deportations have arrived. But will Republicans pay for them?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/02/21/trumps-mass-deportations-have-arrived-but-will-republicans-pay-for-them/?utm_term=.fa136213d74c
By Greg Sargent February 21 at 3:17 PM
.....................and vastly expand the pool of undocumented immigrants who will now be targeted for deportation.
Which raises a question: Will congressional Republicans appropriate the money that this will cost?
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Under the Obama administration, this meant “prioritizing” ever-more-narrow categories of unauthorized immigrants for deportation; by the end of the Obama administration, unauthorized immigrants living in the US who hadn’t been convicted of crimes were at pretty low risk of being deported.
That era is over......................
Read Lind’s piece for more details on the various ways in which the new regime will seek to maximize the deportations of these lower-level offenders. But one of the most important includes tripling the number of removal agents at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, by adding 10,000 agents.
[How enforcing Trump’s immigration actions could hurt public safety]
Today I spoke about the implications of this with John Sandweg, who for a time under Obama was acting director of ICE and acting general counsel of DHS.
Sandweg argues that vastly expanding the pool of targets for deportation is mostly about driving up the numbers of people being deported — by going after the lower-level offenders and longtime residents, or what he calls the “low-hanging fruit.” But that, he says, would divert resources away from going after the serious criminals and recent border-crossers.
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Now, the way that Trump’s DHS will deal with this is by increasing the number of ICE agents — hence the tripling of them. But that is going to cost money. Sandweg estimates this could cost as much as $1 billion to $2 billion for the first year — because of hiring, training, equipment, and offices. Politico recently put the estimate even higher, at nearly $4 billion per year..............
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