The war on terror is now much much more expensive than deportation, right?

Question

"The bill now totals $469.7 billion. It grew by more than $16 billion during a debate that began in July before it was suspended during lawmakers' four-week August recess."

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/nation/story/6798853BD71EA256862571E300168971?OpenDocument

Thanks Coragraph, just shows there's no reason we can't deport them!

Answer 1

Yes it is and lack of border control is conducive to terrorists entering the U.S.

Answer 2

See : Cost 0f 1,891 Mile Fence
At The U.S./Mexico Border = 14 Days of Iraq War
Posted by The Watchdog -
August 6th, 2006
VDARE

Below is a sample of homeland security items
in the FY2007 Budget,
their estimated costs,
and the time it takes the Pentagon
to burn through the same amount in Iraq.

* 1,500 new Border Patrol agents:
$459 million ($306,000 per agent)
Iraq spending equivalent: 1.9 days

* Container Security Initiative (CSI)
to pre-screen U.S.-bound cargo
at more than 40 foreign ports:
$139 million
Iraq spending equivalent: 13.9 hours.

* An additional 6,700 Detention Bed Spaces
to replace “catch and release”
with a “catch and return” policy:
$410 million.
Iraq spending equivalent: 1.7 days

* An enhanced Worksite Enforcement program
to “send a strong deterrence message to employers who knowingly hire illegal workers…”:
$41.7 million
Iraq spending equivalent: 4.2 hours

* Border technology
to enhance electronic surveillance:
$100 million
Iraq spending equivalent: 10 hours

* 18 additional Fugitive Operations teams
(raising the total to 70)
dedicated to catching
the estimated 450,000 individuals
who have absconded
following their deportation orders:
$30 million
Iraq spending equivalent: 10 hours

* Completion
of the San Diego Border Infrastructure System,
including multiple fences and patrol roads:
$30 million
Iraq spending equivalent: 3 hours

And now for the grand finale.
Although this last item is NOT the least costly,
it may yield one of the biggest benefits.

After the first 10 miles of border fence was completed,
arrests of illegal immigrants
trying to cross the San Diego border sector plummeted
from about 25,000 per year to 3,000 per year.
But of course the San Diego fence
pushed the illegal influx eastward,
into the (less hospitable) Arizona desert.

A serious commitment to border security
would require fencing off the entire southern border—
all 1,891 miles of it.
(For comparison, we have 40,000 miles of Interstate highways.)

At $1.7 million per mile
(the cost of the first 10 mile stretch in San Diego),
the entire U.S.-Mexican border
(all 1,891 miles of it)
could be sealed off for $3.3 billion dollars.

Iraq spending equivalent: 13.8 days.

Cost / benefit analysis, anyone?

Answer 3

We need to stop what we can. There will always be huge Military spending and many support that. We could do deportation for a lot less that predicted-but greedy hands are in that too.

Answer 4

Why deport? Encarcerate !! Put the bastards in the right kind of jail and they will be glad to pay their own way out. I emphazise "The right kind of Jail." Keep them in the same conditions as they would experience if jailed in their native countries.

Answer 5

How is it that China doesn't have these problem? Our politicians create these problems with their greed and lack of understanding of the real problems in this country. The war on drugs, failure, The war on poverty, failure, The war on illiteracy, failure, the war on terror, failure. We are fighting the wrong battles.

Answer 6

Sure. But that's because the "war on terror" is an undefined, open- ended marketing label attached to most of our foreign policy.

Answer 7

Sure