What would it cost to send 12 million illegals back to their country?

Answer 1

And........how exactly would anyone FIND 12 million people and process them...

And......how would they be deported? Bus, train, plane? How many forms of transportation would be needed and who would pay for it?

Ridiculous. Now that the bill has been shot down by the Republicans, things will remain the same.

12 million people can relax now - they know that immigration reform is dead in the water..so they can all go back to work. More can now continue their journey over our borders and pretty soon, there will be 20 million here.....

Nothing every stops the flow except amnesty.

Answer 2

We don't have the facilities or the manpower. Currently, a potential deportee goes to a detention center and can languish for months waiting for a deportation hearing.

In order for mass deportation to be effective deportees should be deported within 48 hours to their home country. If if they or their assigns can eventually prove they were in the US legally, then they get a free trip back, adequate compensation, and a job guarantee. My guess is that less than 1% would fall into this category -- il.e. those that couldn't produce adequate documentation within 48 hours but were legally entitled to be in the US. Then the cost of mass deportation would drop from exorbitant to acceptable.

Would some who were here legally act as though they weren't in order to get future compensation?
Sure, but initially, the ICE could round up the first 5 million of them and be pretty sure they were illegal once adequate verification systems were implemented.. After that, it might be more difficult so compensation would have to be modified.

Remember, the average illegal immigrant costs the American taxpayer over $10,000 per year..

Answer 3

About half the price of feeding, housing, clothing, and taking care of them medically and supplying a free education to their dirty faced children. And about a 1/4 of the cost to house and take care of them in the prison systems of the country.

Answer 4

12 bizzilion dollars. And guess what they would come back the next week and illegally enter the Country. It is impossible to get them out. That is why they requested the Amnesty bill, but that bill is unfair to legal immigrants.

Answer 5

Not much.

When President Eisenhower developed a plan to rid this nation of illegal aliens, most of the 95% who left this country left on their own.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html

I think we should confiscate the assets of illegal aliens and employers of illegal aliens which would fund any deportation and would also help pay down the debt.

Answer 6

Well if 12million people are here, it will really cheap to send them back, if you apply the law of averages each one of these illegal is bound to have posession of more than $1000. since they will be sent on a government issued flight or truck one way ticket to any country is cheaper than $1000. :)

So collect these people sell whatever they have obtained here in US Illegaly and send them pennyless the way they came.

Peace

Answer 7

We could profit.

Declare every day a "taze" a mexican day.

Then uncle sam could get his own PPV channel featuring "American Tazer"

Proceeds could go to lower the deficit, and pay for the tax break you recieve on the purchase of a new Tazer.

Answer 8

Less then it would cost to educate their children, pay their hospital bills & cover the costs of identity thefts.

Answer 9

Enforce our laws, and fine employers... Make them something no one wants to touch. Then the problem will take car of its self.

Answer 10

Let's ship them all back VIA UPS !!