Taxpayers Face $2,358 Cost Per Deportation Under Mass Removal Push
TL;DR
An Economic Policy Institute calculator estimates taxpayers would pay about $2,358 per deportation in Trump’s mass-removal push, totaling roughly $268.9 billion over 2.5 years, a figure that could instead fund millions of SNAP recipients, Medicaid coverage, or public housing; DHS counters that self-deportation is cheaper and that spending would rise with added funding.
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