Trump has requested a dramatic increase in deportations all across America and that means more money will be funded. The Department of Homeland Security has estimated that the extent of his ideas that he has for his deportation force will cost around 400 to 600 billion dollars in order to deport approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. The article also describes the facilities that undocumented immigrants are kept at after they are caught and are held for about 30 days. The article says in order to maintain one facility it costs 1 billion over the time of four years. An estimated 126.46 dollars a day to maintain the facilities. Labor costs is another factor in the budget saying that the ICE agency has almost 21,000 agents which is almost double what they had before which adds another 3.8 billion dollars to the already huge budget.
Article: http://www.newsweek.com/trump-immigrant-deportation-costs-559933
Discussion Questions: - Do you believe it is necessary for Trump to invest this much money into deporting immigrants from the U.S?
- What other things could Trump invest in that could be more helpful for the United States?
- Where do you think Trump is going to get all this money from if he is planning to repeal 40% of federal state tax?
It's really unbelievable the extent to which Trump will go to deport people. Recently, when the feds came to Santa Cruz, they told local police they were busting gang members, but it turned out they were deporting people. They were manipulative and it's surprising that this happened.
ReplyDeleteTrump should not be putting too much money into deportation because if that is the focus, there will be no room for anything else.
ReplyDeleteI can´t believe Trump is willing to invest so much in deportation, which I don´t support at all. I understand that he´s very passionate about this cause, but there are better things that he could invest in.
ReplyDeleteI do not feel like it is necessary for Trump to invest that much money for deporting immigrants from the United States. There are other things that Trump can invest money money in rather then deporting immigrants. A good use of the money for Trump would be spend more money on infrastructure and safety for the United States. I believe that Trump is getting the money from the government in order to do all this things even through he is planning to repeal 40% of federal state tax.
ReplyDeleteI do not believe that it is necessary for Trump to be investing so much money deporting immigrants. Another use for this money could be bringing the factories inside the U.S. to manufacture things inside the U.S. so it would open up more jobs. I am very unsure and hesitant about where Trump is going to get this money from, but according to Trump, he says he will make Mexico pay for it by taking their products that come into the U.S, which actually might create more problems.
ReplyDeleteI dont think it is necessary for Trump to invest so much money into deporting immigrants. Trump as president has so much more responsibilities to take care of. Trumps should invest in jobs, schools orphanages, homeless etc.
ReplyDeleteI think has bigger and more prominent responsibilities to be focusing on as President. I think Trump is just putting us in a bigger debt than we already are.
ReplyDeleteImmigrants are essential for his thriving business. I have never seen another president taking on such an extreme measure to deport million of lives. I have no idea where Trump is getting his money nor do I care because I dont think his plan is achievable.
ReplyDeleteI am also appalled by the extent to which Trump is focusing on deportation. Trump is investing so much time, money, and labor into deportation when it could be put to other uses. In addition, immigrants help the economy through their work, and as Geth mentioned, they also help his business. I am not sure where Trump is getting the money from if he is planning to reduce taxes, but my guess is that he is going to take funds from other sections of the government budget which wouldn't be beneficial to the rest of the nation
ReplyDeleteI think it's really bad idea to spend all this money to deport immigrants ,it will not benefit our country at all .instead of all this Trump should invest more money on education,and creating more jobs for americans.
ReplyDeleteI do not believe it is necessary for Trump to invest this much money into deporting immigrants from the U.S. Trump could easily invest in so many other things. Our education, security, environment, and energy are a few examples. I think Trump's plan will just make American debt grow larger.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's necessary to spend all this money into deporting immigrants. We have other problems in this country.
ReplyDeleteI do not think that Trump should be investing that much money into deportations when there are more important issues that he should be investing in such as education.
ReplyDeleteI do not think Trump should be investing so much money on deportations I believe there are better things for Trump to invest money on. Trump should really look at other issues because even though he deports people those same people and even others will find ways to come back in to the U.S.
ReplyDeleteTrump solely focuses on immigrants yet there are much greater issues present in the US. We still have people in poverty, unemployment rate is low but rising, and healthcare is affordable but doesn't provide the same quality for everyone. Trump focuses on kicking out illegals yet he is also causing upset to Mexico in the process. World war 3 is certainly underway.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that Trump should focus and spend so much money on deporting immigrants because that is using a lot of money that could be put to other issues we have in our country. I think he could be putting it towards poverty or education. If he spends this amount of money on immigration, I don't know where he is expecting to get money for other issues that need to be resolved.
ReplyDeleteI think it's a mistake for trump to be investing so much money on this because it's really unnecessary most of undocumented people are good hard working people, however I think he should just deport criminals. I think trump should be investing on education because that's more important. I do not know where he is going to get the money, it's very unrealistic for him to deport so many people because he has no way of getting the money.
ReplyDeleteThere is no reason to spend so much money on things that are firstly not necessary and secondly, in most cases immoral. Especially because it is money the US government doesn't have.
ReplyDeleteI believe that Trump should not be focusing on deporting illegal immigrants. He plans to spend way too much money on this as well. The money that he plans on spending could be spent way more efficiently than this. It could go towards helping out the citizens and people of this country rather than hurting them. By focusing all his time, money, and energy on immigration, many other important issues won't get done.
ReplyDeleteI don't see why Trump should focus on deporting immigrants/trying to keep them out. He should be investing the money in other more important aspects of our government. It is completely unnecessary to deport people and destroy families.
ReplyDeleteNo this is not necessary this money could be used for better things such as for the military that takes almost 5 billion itself to pay for and just this money is not used right and is being abused
ReplyDeleteI think that this is a waste of money to try and deport all the immigrants. We need that money to go to more important things like environment and health care and other priorities and urgent needs that we have as a country
ReplyDeleteI think that we need to invest money in something that can actually benefit us instead of driving people away. I mean he wants to spend billions to drive people away to create jobs where we could use that money just to make even more jobs or at least help schools and people nationwide.
ReplyDeleteI don't think we should be investing money into this. We already owe so much money and with his plan we would be in more debt. Ah he could focus on the fact that many people have lost their jobs and the living expense are way to high.
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ReplyDeleteI don't think that he should invest money into this because it is not that big of a problem in the US
ReplyDeleteI don't think it necessary at all to invest his money into immigration because that money could be used for more important things we need as a nation
ReplyDeleteI think he shouldn't invest money on all of his ideas to be honest because all of his ideas are bad. We have other big problems here in the U.S. so why waste money on deporting immigrants
ReplyDeleteTrying to invest deporting immigrants are a waste of time. We should focus on getting out of debt then making it greater
ReplyDeleteI do not believe that Trump should be investing all that money on deporting immigrants. There are bigger more important things he should be worrying about. He should be spending that money on the citizens of the US. Maybe that money could be used to lower the homeless population and poverty
ReplyDeleteI believe that investing so much money into deporting people is ludicrous. There are so many other dire issues that Trump should be dealing with and yet he is spending his time tearing families apart. He should spend this money on providing shelter to those without homes and working on creating something more effective on getting homeless people decent paying jobs and affordable housing.
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