(01-10-2018 02:30 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  Some of you like to bring up the cost of this wall like its going to break the bank. Now I have a question about the money it saves vs cost.

If this wall just stops 40% of those entering the U.S. and then gets caught how long would it be before it was saving the U.S. money?

It cost the Feds $80 a day to house a federal prisoner. So lets say a million gets in each year and now this wall stops 400,000, I guess you would need to find out how many get caught each year once they enter this country.

I read a figure where 27,505 (36%) of illegals were in federal prison in 2014 and I'm sure it's way more than that that are in county jails waiting to be deported. The Feds pay for that stay. So if it just stopped 40,000 a year that would be over a billion dollars saved if each of those were in prison for 1 year.

That does not take into account the cost to those that a crime was committed on. Yes, 10 billion is a lot of money...but money that also saves in other area that the government is spending huge dollars in

Walls can't vote. That is what this is really about, not money. Hell our govt pisses away money of dumber stuff daily.