February 6, 2026
It's clear that an organization which is, minimally, $38 TRILLION in debt can't afford to support the approximately 11.7 million foreign nationals crossing our borders in just the last five years - 10 million counted via border encounters and an additional estimated 1.7 million "gotaways." And that's only during the Biden Administration.
Including estimates for local, state and national expenses for migrant health care, education, social services, etc., dollar costs run to hundreds of billions per year. After offsets for taxes paid by migrants, FAIR cites $150.7 billion to $151 billion per year.
There are also another estimated 10.2 to 11 million undocumented migrants here from before Biden.
It's fairly clear to nearly everyone, especially with the cost of Trump's foreign, ah, "peace" meddling, " we" can't afford this.
Dealing with this situation is "THE MISSION."
On the other hand, the dollar cost of Trump's forcable mass deportation of only the Biden 11.7 million is somewhere in the neighborhood of $185 billion per year but could be as high as $315 billion.
For the sake of argument, let's go with the $185 billion.
So Trump's $185 billion force-based deportation program is more expensive by about $34 billion per year than the cost of immigrant programs @ $151 billion per year .
And that's before the easily-predicted-by-anyone-but-Trump cost of dealing with the resistance, organized and otherwise, such as what's showing up in Minnesota and spreading across the country.
And of course, that $151 billion per year migrant cost won't suddenly disappear. At 1 million successful deportations per year - that's the optimistic Trump projection - you'd expect it to decrease by only about 10% - that's $15 billion - per year.
It's fairly clear that THE METHOD is, shall we say to be polite, flawed. That doesn't mean "abandon the mission."
But then what's a poor taxpayer to do?
When our ancestors risked it all to come to North America, they came looking for work, a plot of land, or to engage in their trade. They weren't expecting a handout.
And let's face it, Biden et.al. were promising that handout - from government - and delivering a lot of it. And the borders were open. Word got out. What would you do?
So are these folks "bad guys" as ICE, Trump and the law-and-order industry like to group and characterize them?
Be careful here, hard to believe but we Birthright Citizens are more likely to commit crimes than those bad guy migrants.
Trump wisely scotched the main part of that American invitation, "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses" for now by conspicuously closing the borders but "we" - especially state and local governments - are still delivering a lot of handout. That's the biggest chunk of the $151 billion per year.
And there are too many non-Americans to assimilate into American Culture - and absorb into the economy without seriously unsettling us Birthright Citizens - and too little time to do it right. And there's the disruption and disorder that implies.
The "optics" are ugly - even uglier when officials lie -
Man Killed by Federal Agents in Minneapolis Was Holding a Phone, Not a Gun -New York Times
Renee Good was shot three times, autopsy into Minneapolis ICE killing finds -The Guardian
And, these ugly smudges, further besmirching Uncle Sam's visage, are being perpetrated by less than well trained - and often unvetted folks, likely the more violent attracted by an opportunity to vent their nature and frustrations.
ICE Detention Expands Dramatically; 70,000 Immigrants Now Jailed, Deaths Increase -Democracy Now!
So keep THE MISSION - and ditch THE METHOD!
The folks claim it's just too hard to do legally according to the 4th Amendment and The Constitution. So what. That's what you were elected, hired and paid for. Or maybe we should just chuck the remainder of The Constitution into the septic system?
But there's hope ! Keep this in mind
Throughout eight years in office, the Obama administration logged more than 3.1 million ICE deportations, according to Syracuse's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. Across four years, the Trump administration recorded 932,000 deportations. -Kinsey Crowley
Do you remember the same kind and level of, OK, the favorite Establishment word is "chaos," accompanying Mr. Obama's ~3.1 million ICE deportations - or Mr. Trump's previous ~932,000?
So THE MISSION can be accomplished with a lot less Constitution-violating Gestapo-like masks, tactics, violence, disruption - - - and ugly optics. And likely a lot less money. And without marking up Uncle's already seriously tarnished visage.
Maybe you have some suggestions?
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