As President Barack Obama and Congress are fighting about what budget cuts do to reduce the huge U.S. deficit, here's an idea that could save billions of dollars, cut spending spree of anti-immigrant raids. I know, I know: the very idea of cutting funding for enforcing immigration laws is a sacrilege for the conservatives and other Americans, who think their country is being "invaded" by undocumented Latin Americans are stealing jobs as well as often violent crimes.
But there is growing evidence that the arrest and deportation of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. border has become big business for private companies to control and arrest the immigrants, unable to significantly reduce the flow of illegal immigrants. "Billions of dollars could be saved if government agencies make better use of resources assigned to them, and if Congress will end the wasteful and redundant programs," says a study by the National Immigration Forum, a Washington group that supports a comprehensive reform.
Among its findings are: "The U.S. government deported in 2010 to 197,000 immigrants who had no criminal record, at a cost of $ 23,000 each, representing an expenditure of 4,500 million dollars. Instead of deporting agricultural workers requires the U.S. labor market, the Government should focus on the deportation of violent criminals, the report said.
"The U.S. government spends $ 7,500 per arrest at the border with Mexico, an increase of 500% over what he spent six years earlier. Despite this huge increase in spending, the number of arrests at the border has not changed much. Are we spending our money well, asks the study. "The U.S.
government has increased the budget for border patrol an average of $ 300 million annually since 2005, although the number of people crossing the border illegally has declined. With only stop such increases for the Border Patrol would save millions of dollars, says the study. Supporters of comprehensive immigration reform say that instead of wasting money, it should solve the problem: a system that does not provide enough visas and force millions of workers to enter the country without legal documentation.
The immigrants are arrested more and more by private companies that have become a powerful lobbying group in Washington. According to a National Public Radio chain, the draconian anti-immigration Arizona law was conceived in the wings for "industry private prison companies." The report specifically cited the U.S.
Corrections Corporation, the largest private prison company in the country. The company said it has not done anything wrong. Should we still wasting money on sports that do not stop immigration, I asked Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform in America, a group that wants to reduce the level of immigration.
"We should spend more on law enforcement," said Mehlman. "In 2007, New York City raised $ 554 million in parking fines, while the federal government earned just $ 7 million last year from the companies they found illegal immigrants." My opinion: If Obama and Congress are considering cutting public spending, should discuss the possibility of cutting the waste in the area of immigration.
At a minimum, should discuss whether it makes sense to spend U.S. $ 4,500 million to deport workers without a history, while cutting funding for the FBI and other law enforcement agencies seeking to put behind bars for dangerous criminals. To me, that makes no sense. 
But there is growing evidence that the arrest and deportation of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. border has become big business for private companies to control and arrest the immigrants, unable to significantly reduce the flow of illegal immigrants. "Billions of dollars could be saved if government agencies make better use of resources assigned to them, and if Congress will end the wasteful and redundant programs," says a study by the National Immigration Forum, a Washington group that supports a comprehensive reform.
Among its findings are: "The U.S. government deported in 2010 to 197,000 immigrants who had no criminal record, at a cost of $ 23,000 each, representing an expenditure of 4,500 million dollars. Instead of deporting agricultural workers requires the U.S. labor market, the Government should focus on the deportation of violent criminals, the report said.
"The U.S. government spends $ 7,500 per arrest at the border with Mexico, an increase of 500% over what he spent six years earlier. Despite this huge increase in spending, the number of arrests at the border has not changed much. Are we spending our money well, asks the study. "The U.S.
government has increased the budget for border patrol an average of $ 300 million annually since 2005, although the number of people crossing the border illegally has declined. With only stop such increases for the Border Patrol would save millions of dollars, says the study. Supporters of comprehensive immigration reform say that instead of wasting money, it should solve the problem: a system that does not provide enough visas and force millions of workers to enter the country without legal documentation.
The immigrants are arrested more and more by private companies that have become a powerful lobbying group in Washington. According to a National Public Radio chain, the draconian anti-immigration Arizona law was conceived in the wings for "industry private prison companies." The report specifically cited the U.S.
Corrections Corporation, the largest private prison company in the country. The company said it has not done anything wrong. Should we still wasting money on sports that do not stop immigration, I asked Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform in America, a group that wants to reduce the level of immigration.
"We should spend more on law enforcement," said Mehlman. "In 2007, New York City raised $ 554 million in parking fines, while the federal government earned just $ 7 million last year from the companies they found illegal immigrants." My opinion: If Obama and Congress are considering cutting public spending, should discuss the possibility of cutting the waste in the area of immigration.
At a minimum, should discuss whether it makes sense to spend U.S. $ 4,500 million to deport workers without a history, while cutting funding for the FBI and other law enforcement agencies seeking to put behind bars for dangerous criminals. To me, that makes no sense.
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