What Deporting 15 Million People Would Actually Look Like

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21. Everyone here is making good points about the cost, but...

The price to implement this plan will not be as high as the estimates. Trump and his cronies will cut corners and save money. Look at how little effort they put into their child kidnapping (aka 'Family Separation') policy.

Paperwork will be ignored.

Reports will not be required, except for maybe a generic "body count" of how many persons were rounded up that day. Whether or not those persons were actually undocumented immigrants will be immaterial.

There will be minimal, if any, training for the hundreds of duly deputized "enforcers".

Hell, a vast proportion of the enforcers might be volunteers and not need to be paid.

As for the empty fields and factories, we have full prisons to work them (especially with all the arrested protestors that will arrive). If it's legal for prison labor to make license plates or furniture or fight fires* for pennies a day, this would be legal too.

As I said, just look at how the Trump Administration handled family separation, and multiply that by a hundred. It's still going to cost the nation dearly to implement, but the figleaf of a "plan" they'll offer will keep enough people quiet to get it implemented.

*Inmate firefighters get a bit over $5/hourday when actively fighting a fire.