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Axios’ Josephine Walker probably thinks she’s on to something for Orange Man Bad, but, hey, this seems cheap

Trump deportations cost taxpayers $2,358 each

American taxpayers would pay about $2,358 each for President Trump’s mass deportation push, according to a new calculator tool from the Economic Policy Institute.

Why it matters: The estimate fuels debate over whether billions of federal dollars devoted to deportations could instead fund other public priorities such as food assistance, health care or housing.

By the numbers: EPI estimates the $268.9 billion projected for deportations could alternatively fund more than 118 million additional SNAP recipients over the remaining 2.5 years of the Trump administration, based on National Priorities Project data.

Alternatively, nearly 12 million additional people could receive Medicaid.

Or more than 9.7 million households could gain access to low-cost public housing.

Why, yes, EPI is seriously far left. Perhaps we’d have the money for that if we weren’t having to pay so much for all the illegals in the US, especially the 10 million plus that Biden let in? Not too mention all the fraud in the system.

What they’re saying: “I don’t think people realize how much money is being spent on these mass deportations,” Gordon Lafer, a professor at the University of Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center and research associate at EPI, tells Axios.

How much do illegals, including all the TPS and fake asylum seekers, cost the US taxpayer yearly? One estimate is that they have a lifetime burden of $68,000, at a minimum. It’s something like at least $150 billion a year.

Washington, D.C., taxpayers could pay $3,930 each. That amount could instead fund SNAP benefits for 455,000 additional people, public housing assistance for 21,000 households or Medicaid coverage for 30,000 people.

In a small state like Connecticut, taxpayers could pay $3,395 per person. According to the analysis, that amount could alternatively fund SNAP benefits for 1.9 million Connecticuters, public housing assistance for roughly 181,000 households or Medicaid coverage for 186,000 people.

We might have that money if we weren’t spending all that money on illegals. That’s the part the illegal alien supporters do not get.

Read: Axios: Deportations Costing $2,358 Each »

It’s wild how hard it is to end something with the word “temporary” in it

TPS for Haitians officially ends, putting thousands out of work and in limbo

A federal judge on Wednesday took the final step in allowing the Trump administration to terminate temporary protected status for 350,000 Haitians, meaning many are likely to lose their jobs and be at risk of deportation back to a country the United States says remains dangerous.

U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes of the District of Columbia had enjoined the administration in February from ending TPS for Haitians, and a federal appeals court had refused to lift the ban. Reyes reversed her decision after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in June that federal law bars judicial review of TPS determinations.

The high court’s ruling means TPS “is no longer in effect,” Reyes wrote in her new order Wednesday. However, the judge said she would allow attorneys to continue seeking discovery and litigating their underlying claims that the Trump administration terminated TPS because of their clients’ race.

The Supreme Court’s ruling left open a narrow path for TPS holders to challenge the loss of their status on constitutional grounds. An attorney representing the immigrants involved in the Supreme Court case said the team is considering filing a new lawsuit.

Oh, FFS. This sh*t is just going to keep going on and on, isn’t it? The Washington Post headline was exciting, then the article just let me down. Seriously, this is deranged. They’ve been here a long time, well beyond what’s reasonable. Why are other countries not taking them in?

Immigration experts said that even before Reyes’s amended ruling, companies had begun large-scale layoffs of Haitian TPS holders, who now face the possibility of detention and deportation. Another federal judge in New York is expected to soon allow the Trump administration to formally end TPS for an estimated 6,000 Syrians to comply with the Supreme Court.

About 200,000 Haitians with TPS hold jobs, with large concentrations of workers in health care, food service, warehousing, retail and long-term caregiving, according to an analysis of government data by the immigration advocacy group FWD.us. Business owners have been preparing for weeks by raising sign-on bonuses, cutting shifts and making inroads at community colleges and high schools to hire new staff, industry leaders said.

Well, there’s at least that.

Read: TPS Officially Ends For Haitians »