The Border and Immigration Crackdown: $32,000 Per Illegal Alien?

The math on the cost of using drones to find border crossers. See also "U.S. Employs More Drones," and "Homeland Security Adding 3 Drones Despite Lack of Pilots."

americanthinker.com: "The cost of apprehending a single illegal alien using a $100K fixed-wing aircraft was $20; the cost of apprehending a single illegal alien using a $1M helicopter was almost $220.

It should come to a shock to the public that Customs and Border Protection paid $240 million for unmanned systems which have only been "credited with apprehending more than 7,500 people since they were deployed six years ago." Is the cost of apprehending a single illegal alien with a Predator really $32,000?" read more