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Documentation Prevails Over Deportation: A Win Win for All

Editor’s Notes

By Marivir Montebon

 

The day after Pres. Obama announced his executive order on immigration is definitely brand new for about five million undocumented immigrants.  And it should be for government too.

 

The attitude towards immigration should be a Win Win for all.

 

The Department of Homeland Security revealed that the cost of deporting about 11 million undocumented immigrants would be $3.37 billion for border police, building of detention centers, and transfer of immigration judges to the south.

 

The process of deportation which includes apprehension, detention, legal proceedings, and transportation would be $18,310 per person. While in detention, government spends $3335 per person for 30 days.

 

The Center for American Progress said that a mass deportation policy would reduce economic growth by $250 billion annually, because immigrants are not only contributors to the economy, they are direct consumers too.

 

On the other hand, giving undocumented immigrants a pathway to citizenship will greatly benefit the economy. The process of documentation alone runs direct opposite to the ‘spending’ character of deportation.  Integrating immigrants into the society means additional tax dollars. We have to account as government income, in the short term, penalties for overstaying, legal documentation and proceedings, as well as medical examination costs. The long term would be government income from the income and sales taxes of these new immigrants.

 

It was good enough for Pres. Obama to create an executive order yesterday. After all, his administration has the higher deportation record than his predecessor. Now it has to be the legislature to pass a comprehensive immigration reform program to fix the broken system.

 

The question is if Congress ever will.

Nov 21, 2014Admin
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Comments: 2
  1. David
    7 years ago

    No one... not even at the far right fringes of the Republican party ever suggested spending that kind of money or effort. No one was rounding up anyone at the moment. There was no imminent danger. This is 100% political posturing and the action highly unlawful to the American way & its Constitution. If executive orders were done in the inverse you'd be the first to cry unfair! Unlawful!

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    • Admin
      7 years ago

      Thank you for your comment, David. The Editor's Notes has presented two government rules regarding immigration. One is deportation, for aliens who are overstaying and crossing the borders without pertinent documents. And the second is documentation (in this case, relief, through the recently signed executive order), for children whose parents are here with an undocumented status and to those who have been here for more than 5 years, without criminal records, and are paying taxes.

      With the huge and growing no. of undocumented immigrants, 11 million, as a result of a broken system, deportation as a rule has become very costly. Hence, relief and long-term fixes in the immigration law must be done by both Legislative and the Executive branches of government.

      This problem will not go away unless relief and long-term measures are implemented. OSM! has been running stories that help provide substantive ways to address immigration issues, based on researches, legal experts, and stories of immigrants themselves. Politicking doesn't work. From Congress and the Executive arms, the 'leaders' need to listen and get their act together.

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