In 2025, Trump Promises to Detain and Deport One Million Immigrants

Forget about the logistics of such an undertaking, do you know what such a mass deportation would cost?

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We hear every day about how the Trump White House plans to rid the country of a long list of nasty things. It promises to reduce waste and eliminate government fraud. Trump’s coterie of cowardly, ignorant sycophants work across all departments of the government to turn the clock back on America and return it to a time when, in their white-are-the-best world view of 1952, gays are evil and the worst imaginable enemy is any brown or black skinned immigrant. The set goal is to remove one million of those “sub-humans” from our country.

One million people is a lot. The process for detaining a single immigrant requires the following steps: an arrest, detainment, a removal order from a judge, and then a flight out of the U.S.. Led by South Dakota Barbie, Kristi Noem, Trump’s jackbooted former-basement-dwellers, otherwise known as ICE, have eliminated the part about getting a judge’s order. That leaves us with the arrest. As we have seen, little, harmless female students, and dads picking their kids up from kindergarten are being apprehended by sometimes upward of a dozen heavily-armed masked tough-guys (no, I am not confusing this with Russia).

All of those dopey, roid-rage warriors are earning a significant amount of money for swarming, say, Serphima from Syria, as she walks her dog — her offense, she wrote an op-ed piece supporting the human rights of Gazans. Many hours are involved from the moment of planning to pick up Seraphima to the drive over to the actual arrest. Even before the young woman is arrested and then swept away to a detention center and held for a minimum of a week — in the old days, before Trump’s deportation terror commenced, immigrants would be held for months — thousands of dollars of taxpayer money have been spent. The salaries of ICE and Border Patrol agents range from $32,000 to $137,000 a year, excluding overtime. There are currently around 30,000 agents working on finding, arresting, detaining, and deporting immigrants. The Trump administration wants to add 20,000 more.

In 2024, 41,000 immigrants were detained. The cost was a little below $4 billion. The detainment costs for one million immigrants will be roughly $100 billion. That’s just the cost of holding them. If they get sick, that is an added expense. If they revolt, it will require more resources. It is estimated that in 2025, Trump’s war against humans from other countries will cost the U.S. taxpayer $162 billion. We can safely double that amount.

When that much money is spent persecuting humans who have little or no voice, a lot of bad stuff can happen. Budgets like this for such criminal purposes breed corruption. I am still puzzled about why Kristi Noem was walking around Washington, D.C., with family members carrying $3,000 in cash. When asked why she had so much money, the Department of Homeland spokesperson said she was buying gifts for her family. Don’t people in South Dakota use debit cards?

FEMA has been gutted, and weather experts predict one of the most deadly hurricane seasons ever. Besides the number of potentially category five storms that are likely, the complete lack of support by the weather service to warn people, and the depleted resources of FEMA will leave large swaths of Trump country at the mercy of a furious Mother Nature. But $300 billion will be spent on chasing down predominantly innocent people who were so desperate in their home countries that they came to our country for a better life. They chose to come to us and give us their children and energy to keep our nation great, but we have this instead.

Finally, it seems like wherever we look, we are hearing about ICE agents turning peaceful communities upside down as they rip sweet little undocumented waitresses like Carol from Trump Country, Missouri. 80 percent of the people in the town voted for Trump, but when ICE swept into the local diner and deported Carol, who had been living there for 20 years, the town exploded into protests. The protests continue, and many of the Trumpists are now regretting their vote.

But it’s too late. It’s happening, and when you think of how much more of this kind of Putin’s-Russia-meets-Hitler’s-Germany type of violence will take place daily, hourly, in our nation over the next four years, it makes it seem like we are living in a Netflix series about the fall of the United States of America.

The costs will be high, and not just in money. Trump’s anti-immigrant lunacy will cost us our reputation — it already has — and it will cost so much more in terms of lost opportunities.

Yes, we are getting greater by the arrest.