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International Business Times
Politics

Trump's Deportation Plan Has an Estimated Price: More Than $2,300 Per Taxpayer

The tool is based on the organization's estimate that the federal government will spend $268.9 billion on deportation operations during Trump's second term. (Credit: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

American taxpayers could end up paying thousands of dollars per person to finance the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign, according to a new report.

The estimate comes from a newly launched calculator developed by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) that breaks down the projected cost of deportation efforts at the national, state, and local levels.

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