Quote:In 2013, we deported <a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/02/u-s-deportations-of-immigrants-reach-record-high-in-2013/'>438k illegal immigrants. </a>


In 2013, the Obama administration spent $18 Billion on <a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/07/obama-immigration-enforcement/1815667/'>immigration enforcement.</a>


Lets assume we triple those numbers to 1.3 million illegal immigrants per year and $54 billion per year. After 8 years of Trump deportation at that rate, that is 10.5 million illegal immigrants deported and $432 billion after 8 years.


If we only doubled it to 876k illegal immigrants per year and $36 billion, after 8 years it is 7 million deported and $288 billion.


You can also add another $15-20 billion to the final cost for the border wall.


According to the <a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.fairus.org/publications/the-fiscal-burden-of-illegal-immigration-on-united-states-taxpayers'>Federation of Immigration Reform</a>, the cost of illegal immigration on the US government, federal and state, is $113 billion per year. After 8 years, that would be $904 billion.


So, over 8 years: Spend $450 billion to erase a $904 billion deficit. Surplus of $454 billion. Seems worth it to me. This is a very simplified look at the finances of the whole thing, but just throwing numbers around. This doesn't including negative or positive impact to the economy (which there will be both).

So $450B to deport people and an unspecified budget to created a wall. Hard to estimate as it keeps getting taller every other week and now he says it will be so high tech it will somehow prevent tunnels from being dug underneath it.


So.. what's the impact when 11 million illegals are gone? Do you anticipate job growth for Americans as 11 million legal job seekers will suddenly flood the migrant farmer/nanny/construction/maid industries?


Or will there be some unintended consequences with this 11 million person void? Can you admit that many of these people are doing jobs entitled naturally born citizens don't have the work ethic and desire to do?


Are you at all concerned about states like Texas, New Mexico and Arizona all of a sudden having deportation hit squads that will harass and target millions of legal citizens based on their name and skin tone on this witch hunt? No. Of course not.


We couldn't put $450B to better use in a hundred different ways?


The fact you consider his trip to be very, very presidential tells me you are sold on every pipe dream this carnival barker sells and would gladly follow him into the mouth of an erupting volcano so long as he told you to. His entire campaign has been about blaming others for what is wrong with America. In this case, Mexicans. Not illegals. Mexicans. Because anyone who even remotely looks Mexican (close enough to Arabic if you squint) is going to be harassed to no end by whatever goon squad he assembles to exact this plan.


And what about the additional cost to re-deport those who come back after being booted? Was that factored in?

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