Texas Scorecard by Will Biagini | June 12, 2024
While open border advocates claim that a mass deportation effort will cost taxpayers too much money, analyses show that allowing them to remain in-country is much more pricey. Over the past several years, the left has promulgated the theory that a mass deportation effort would result in taxpayers being forced to shoulder an exorbitant financial burden.
The question of whether or not deporting all illegal aliens in the country is too costly for taxpayers is further exacerbated by extreme price tags tacked onto deportation efforts by prominent left-wing organizations.
For example, reportedly ideologically liberal magazine Reason has been singled out as responsible for sparking the debate by reporting that it would cost the federal government about $150 billion to deport 11 million illegal aliens. This averages to about $14,000 for each illegal alien. Another figure by Penn Wharton estimates the total cost would be about $400 billion.
According to many, these are scare tactics employed by leftist media to frighten conservatives out of advocating for strong border security measures—chiefly, deportation. For example, economist and former professor Dr. Peter St Onge posted on X that “The left is trying to scare Americans off mass deportation by hyping the cost.”
These arguments are all but new. For years—stretching back to as far as 2015—open border advocates have used theoretical financial burdens on American taxpayers as a means to convince the public that mass deportation is not only inhumane but much too costly for feasibility.
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