Washington Examiner: Illegal migrant crime cost $166.5 billion, three times the price of deportation

Paul Bedard on the Washington Examiner had this dialogue on our latest piece at Actual Clear Investigations.

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The price of crime from 662,000 prison unlawful migrants looked for deportation has been pegged at thrice the much-hyped worth of President-elect Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” plan.

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In an evaluation from the Crime Prevention Analysis Heart, the prices of crime from the highest targets of ICE Enforcement and Elimination Operations was set at $166.5 billion. That quantity relies on the associated fee to victims, a worth listing developed by the Nationwide Institute of Justice.

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Crime Prevention Analysis Heart President John R. Lott Jr., who did the evaluation for Actual Clear Investigations,stated the associated fee was based mostly on simply one of many crimes “every of the 662,566 ‘non-detained’ noncitizen offenders on ICE’s listing” has been beforehand accused of.

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“Murders account for nearly $153.8 billion of the $166.5 billion in estimated prison victimization prices. One other $6 billion entails sexual assaults/offenses, and an extra $5.2 billion comes from sexual assaults and sexual offenses,” he wrote.

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“Half of the crimes these non-detained people commit don’t have value estimates. These crimes embrace kidnapping, embezzlement, extortion, smuggling, visitors offenses, and weapon offenses,” he added.

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Lott’s evaluation in contrast that to the estimated worth of Trump’s “mass deportation” plan. He set that at about $58.3 billion.

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Different estimates have been larger and based mostly on extra unlawful immigrants being eliminated, however Lott centered on people who the Trump crew is predicted to be centered on in its effort to deport migrants with the worst prison data.

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Paul Bedard, “Unlawful migrant crime value $166.5 billion, thrice the value of deportation,” Washington Examiner, November 27, 2024.