$46,654: Annual Cost of Detaining Illegal Alien Exceeds Average American Income – IOTW Report

$46,654: Annual Cost of Detaining Illegal Alien Exceeds Average American Income

AMAC: 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.

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11 Comments on $46,654: Annual Cost of Detaining Illegal Alien Exceeds Average American Income

  1. Not one more foreign ‘refugee’ should be allowed into this country, until our own American refugees are cared for.

    The homeless are a disgraceful American refugee problem, country wide, and many are veterans of our military.

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