The Costs of Mass Deportation

Impractical, Expensive, and Ineffective

Report from Marshall Fitz and Gebe Martinez shows that the necessary enforcement policies for mass deportation are hugely impractical and prohibitively expensive.

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Deportees wait to be transferred at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's in Broadview, Illinois facility. (AP/Brian Kersey)

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