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Trump's Mass Deportation Could Cost $88 Billion Annually

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If he returns to the White House, Donald Trump has vowed to launch a “mass deportation” of at least 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. without authorization. He made a similar promise during his first administration. It didn’t pan out after he hit logistical and legal obstacles, USA Today reports. This time, experts say, things may be different. A more experienced Trump administration will know "how to effectively use an enormous bureaucracy to their advantage," said César García Hernández, an Ohio State University law professor and author of "Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants." The ramp-up is doable if a second Trump administration takes a "steroid-infused, whole-of-government approach," said Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection under Trump. "The priorities will stay the same: going after convicted criminals," Morgan said. "However, nobody is off limits."


If Trump wins a second term, public opinion may be on his side to do things Americans objected to before, like separating immigrant parents from their children in order to prosecute the adults. A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll found 45% of respondents support Trump’s mass deportation proposal and 49% oppose it, with 4% undecided. A mass deportation of 1 million people per year could cost $88 billion annually, according to the nonpartisan American Immigration Council. It would require an unprecedented ramp-up of law enforcement staffing, detention capacity, immigration courtrooms and flight capacity. "If President Trump gets re-elected, the border is going to be sealed; the military will be deployed; the National Guard will be activated and the illegals are going home," said Stephen Miller, architect of Trump's previous immigration policies.

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