Liberals Exaggerated Cost of Deporting Illegal Immigrants Sevenfold – And Massively Underestimated Cost of Their Crimes
Alex Carlisle January 1, 2025 0
Democrats have constantly claimed that deporting illegal immigrants would be prohibitively expensive, costing taxpayers more than letting them stay and enjoy government benefits. And as is always the case, they’re dead wrong.
American Immigration Council (AIC) Senior Fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick recently told a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on mass deportation that removing illegal immigrants from the country would cost taxpayers in excess of $316 billion.
“You estimate, at least in one publication here, that the cost of massive deportation would be $316 billion?” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) asked.
“At a minimum,” Reichlin-Melnick responded.
However, the former Crime Prevention Research Center president, John R. Lott, Jr., estimated the cost of removing undocumented individuals from the country has been exaggerated up to sevenfold.
https://thepopulisttimes.com/liberals-exaggerated-cost-of-deporting-illegal-immigrants-sevenfold-and-massively-underestimated-cost-of-their-crimes/
