Axios: Deportations Costing $2,358 Each

Axios’ Josephine Walker probably thinks she’s on to something for Orange Man Bad, but, hey, this seems cheap

Trump deportations cost taxpayers $2,358 each

American taxpayers would pay about $2,358 each for President Trump’s mass deportation push, according to a new calculator tool from the Economic Policy Institute.

Why it matters: The estimate fuels debate over whether billions of federal dollars devoted to deportations could instead fund other public priorities such as food assistance, health care or housing.

By the numbers: EPI estimates the $268.9 billion projected for deportations could alternatively fund more than 118 million additional SNAP recipients over the remaining 2.5 years of the Trump administration, based on National Priorities Project data.

Alternatively, nearly 12 million additional people could receive Medicaid.

Or more than 9.7 million households could gain access to low-cost public housing.

Why, yes, EPI is seriously far left. Perhaps we’d have the money for that if we weren’t having to pay so much for all the illegals in the US, especially the 10 million plus that Biden let in? Not too mention all the fraud in the system.

What they’re saying: “I don’t think people realize how much money is being spent on these mass deportations,” Gordon Lafer, a professor at the University of Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center and research associate at EPI, tells Axios.

How much do illegals, including all the TPS and fake asylum seekers, cost the US taxpayer yearly? One estimate is that they have a lifetime burden of $68,000, at a minimum. It’s something like at least $150 billion a year.

Washington, D.C., taxpayers could pay $3,930 each. That amount could instead fund SNAP benefits for 455,000 additional people, public housing assistance for 21,000 households or Medicaid coverage for 30,000 people.

In a small state like Connecticut, taxpayers could pay $3,395 per person. According to the analysis, that amount could alternatively fund SNAP benefits for 1.9 million Connecticuters, public housing assistance for roughly 181,000 households or Medicaid coverage for 186,000 people.

We might have that money if we weren’t spending all that money on illegals. That’s the part the illegal alien supporters do not get.