The Costs of Trumped-Up Immigration Enforcement Measures

Authors

Kari Hong, Boston College Law School

Document Type

Symposium

Publication Date

2017

Abstract

Currently, our country spends $18 billion each year on immigration enforcement, which is nearly $4 billion more than the combined budgets of the FBI, DEA, Secret Service, and ATF. President Trump hopes to substantially increase that annual number with his proposed heightened enforcement measures that result in more arrests, more ICE officers roaming our streets, airports, and courtrooms, more detentions, more deportations, and more wall. This essay begins by examining each of these measures that were outlined in the new executive orders and concludes that all are expensive, ineffective, unnecessary, and inhumane.

Publisher

Cardozo Law Review de·novo

Volume

2017

First Page

119

Recommended Citation

Hong, Kari, "The Costs of Trumped-Up Immigration Enforcement Measures" (2017). Cardozo Law Review de•novo. 53.
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/de-novo/53