President-elect Trump’s deportation plan has been pitched as a ‘cost-saving’ opportunity for Americans

President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration plan will be “cost-saving” for Americans, former ICE Director Tom Homan told Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, responding to a warning from the Wall Street Journal that he is carrying out the largest deportation effort in history. it can carry a high price tag.

“[The Biden administration] you pay for free plane tickets across the country, free hotel rooms for $500 a night, free education, free health care, and that lasts forever,” he said.

“President Trump’s plan in the long run will save taxpayers money… [the Biden administration] you pay $500 a night for hotel rooms in New York City. Meanwhile, there are empty ICE beds for $127 a night, so President Trump’s plans will save taxpayers money in the long run. “

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Homan and other high-profile voices on immigration have been critical of the Biden-Harris administration for the past four years, as illegal immigration has fallen in record numbers and drained resources from communities across the US.

Under their rule, places like New York City, Boston and Chicago have become centers of immigration. In New York City, for example, the once-iconic Roosevelt Hotel became like a second Ellis Island, as it turned into an immigration processing facility and housed illegal immigrants on the outskirts.

Trump has made immigration a key issue in his campaign, re-emphasizing his push for a border wall and mass deportations that he has called for in previous campaigns.

The Wall Street Journal, on Friday, wrote about Trump’s plan, which could include an emergency declaration on the border, the construction of a wall, and deportations.

“The most important thing in the near term is finding the money to pay for it. An estimate by the American Immigration Council, a liberal immigration group, estimates that a campaign to deport the total number of people living in the US illegally would cost $968 billion over a decade, or nearly a billion dollars. 88 per year,” the article read.

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Asylum seekers wait to be processed by the US Border Patrol after crossing from Mexico at a temporary camp near the US border on December 13, 2023, in Jacumba Hot Springs, California. (Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images/Getty Images)

“Any deportation effort requires huge resources to hire more federal agents to identify and arrest immigrants, contract for a place to hold them and buy flights to take them to other countries.”

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Key Square Capital Management CEO Scott Bessent, who appeared on “Sunday Morning Futures” with Homan, reiterated that the situation is more expensive than Trump’s approach.

“Let’s talk about the human cost. We have 100,000 fentanyl deaths a year because of an open border. We have a lot of crime. We have a basic fear that the American people have. You can’t put a price on that,” he said. said.

“But I will tell you, again, what we are going to do here … Donald Trump has planned the biggest political comeback in history, and I think we are close to a golden age in the economy in the next four years, where we can have an agenda for growth, where we deregulate, lower energy prices and lower prices interest, and that will boost growth like we haven’t seen in years.”