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3. What is the cost of Trump's insane Nazi plan to hunt down DACA immigrants?
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 02:12 PM
Sep 2017

We already know that Trump is willing to lose all the money they bring in, costing the U.S. economy more than $450 billion. But what is it going to cost in manpower, detention, court and legal fees, and the transportation costs to ship them all out?

Just calculating from California, the state with the most DACA residents, JetBlue (a cheap airline) costs $442 for 800,000 people. On do the math, that's $353,600,000 billion, not including any family members.

Is Trump going to hit the US taxpayers up with refunding 800,000 families the cost of their losses in real and personal property? Is he going to compensate them for the fees they've already paid to stay here legally? What about their education costs, if he prevents whem from earning a degree, will Trump compensate them for their expenses and lost income?

So, it becomes a question if Republicans really hate the DACA peopkle badly enough to spend $354 billion on transportation costs alone, just to punish them for the 'crimes' of their parents?

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