NEW FROM THE AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL: A mass deportation op would cost the US government an estimated $315 billion. "Starting" at 1 million/year? That's $88B annually. It'd cut GDP by 4.2-6.8%. That's the Great Recession on the LOW end. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mas...
The mass deportation of millions of undocumented individuals would be tremendously expensive and would have a catastrophic impact on our economy—one that would be expansive and impact every American. ...
"At 1 million/year." Typo?
It's indescribably sad and infuriating that people are doing budgetary analysis on an Trumpist Schutzstaffel
It would be an economic atom bomb
What the Republicans say is for the campaign trail, but they would try to enact some horrible half-assed version of it to appease their racist base.
Give back Mexico stolen land, and this false problem will disappear.
Eyewatering cost and basic morality aside, it would be disastrous for the Republican party as voters in every traditionally red rural region in the country would learn too late that farming in the US is only possible thanks to immigrant labour.
I suspect the idiotic tariff plan and the giant tax cuts for billionaires will help ensure that economic collapse isn't on the low end.
I'll say it again. The combined population of NYC and LA is about 12 million people. How in the world would any agency be able to find, round up and move out of the country that many people? Once you get a mental image, you realize the impossibility of any hope of avoiding catastrophe.
315 billion is way low
