Immigration Crackdown - the Cost: Tough talk on immigration comes with huge credit card bill - The Hill's Congress Blog

An anaylsis of the huge inflation in government spending on "border security" and the immigration crackdown. An OpEd by Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum, a non-partisan immigrant advocacy organization based in Washington, DC.

Tough talk on immigration comes with huge credit card bill - The Hill's Congress Blog: "In just the last four years, spending on border security has ballooned to more than $50 billion—an unprecedented amount billed to the American taxpayers that is neither justified nor properly accounted for. Annual spending by Customs and Border Protection has more than doubled since 2005, from $5.4 billion to more than $11 billion this year. The Border Patrol’s budget alone is now more than $3.5 billion—nearly ten times what it was in the mid-1990s—even though illegal crossings have dipped below 1972 levels due, in large part, to a faltering economy."