- Border enforcement a critical financial need
Annual Cost of Detaining Illegal Alien Exceeds Average American’s Household Income
AN IMPRESSIVE REALITY!
And this does not include such things as the costly and disruptive effect of such things as managing significant numbers of non-English-speaking students flooding schools in communities around the nation. DLH
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(CNSNews.com) – The federal government paid a “bed rate” of $127.82 per day to house each illegal alien detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in fiscal 2016, according to ICE data published in a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
Even if you do not count the extra day in that leap year, that works out to $46,654.30 for each detention bed occupied by an illegal alien for 365 days.
The approximately $46,654 it cost to house a detained illegal alien for 365 days in fiscal 2016 was approximately $104 more than the average income for Americans 15 and older that year—which, according to Census Bureau Table PINC-01, was $46,550.
