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The cost of deportation per person from 2020 to 2025, including factors such as detention, processing, and removal, as well as the impact of policy changes and methodological differences on cost estimates.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) publishes a low‑end per‑deportation figure—about $17,121 per removal—that captures immediate arrest, detention and processing but excludes many indirect costs...
The available public record does not support a single, verifiable tally of U.S. citizens detained or deported by ICE since 2003: government and independent data releases show isolated confirmed cases ...
Federal and state taxpayers already spend billions to -costs">detain noncitizens in facilities and to expand detention capacity, and emergency or offshore “camp”-style operations can add hundreds of m...
Per-deportee cost calculations are built from a common set of operational line items — arrest, detention/monitoring, legal processing, transportation and removals — but the weight and accounting of th...