The cost of deporting the entire illegal immigrant population is a hard number to pin but a few groups have tried, and they put the estimate in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
In the wake of GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s call to deport illegal immigrants en masse, a population most recently estimated at 11.3 million people, the liberal Center for American Progress has updated its regular analysis of how expensive such a plan would be.
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