Illegal aliens are being deported on private jets costing $300,000 every day!
Article CAIRCO note:
Wouldn't $300,000 every day be better spent on the border fence?
Article publisher:
Daily Mail
Article date:
15 April 2016
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
Illegal [alien] immigrants are being deported on PRIVATE JETS - and taxpayers are on hook for $300,000 every day to fly aliens back to their home countries
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spent $116m in 2015 to transport illegal immigrants
- More than 40% of those who violated their visas were convicted criminals
- Of those over 1,000 were identified as organized crime or gang members
- Agency once hired a Boeing 767-300 to take an immigrant back to Nigeria
- They also hired Gulfstream IV executive jets for so-called 'high-risk charters' on at least 34 occasions
- Campaigners for taxpayers' rights have said the figures obtained by the Daily Mail Online are 'insane' and an 'outrageous waste of tax dollars'
- Mexico is country of origin for biggest number of illegal [aliens] who are deported
American taxpayers are forking out more than $300,000 every day to deport illegal [alien] immigrants on commercial flights and even on private jets, Daily Mail Online can exclusively reveal.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spent $116m in 2015 to transport 235,413 people in the United States illegally back to their home countries.
More than 40 per cent of those who had violated visa restrictions were convicted criminals while more than 1,000 were identified as gang members.
A group campaigning for taxpayers' rights have said the figures obtained by the Daily Mail Online are 'insane' and an 'outrageous waste of tax dollars'.
The ICE revealed to Daily Mail Online that the average cost of every immigrant [illegal alien] in 2015 was $12,213.
The cost includes identifying the immigrant [illegal alien], apprehending them, placing them in a detention center, their process through immigration court and their subsequent removal...
To remove an illegal immigrant costs an average of $1,962. This includes both ground and air fares...
The government shells out $231 every 24 hours to house just one of the 2,105 foreign detainees at The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, a small town 200 miles from the Mexican border.
The figure was more than a double room at the four-star Hilton Palacio del Rio 70 miles away in San Antonio, which costs $169...
...Republican front-running presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has won over voters attacking the government of Mexico and outlining a plan to charge them $100,000 for every illegal immigrant who crosses the southern border...
