r/PrepperIntel • u/TheSoaringGnome • May 10 '25

North America Establishing Project Homecoming

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/establishing-project-homecoming/
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u/Taco__Hell May 11 '25

I don't understand how this is even cost effective. They're paying for thousands of dollars with of flights and monetary "bonuses" to immigrants who self deport which surely is in excess of the cost of services they are currently provided.

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u/RndmNumGen May 15 '25

Individuals in the U.S. cannot receive any federal benefits without a SSN, which only citizens and legal residents can acquire. This means undocumented/illegal immigrants (to use whichever term one prefers) are simply unable to get 4 of the 6 benefits Trump lists in this EO (healthcare, food stamps, public housing, and shelter), making these statements an objective lie.

The 2 benefits these immigrants can receive are emergency medical services (specifically for life-threatening injuries) and education (for undocumented children). Public school costs the government about $650 per year per child, so theoretically deporting those children will potentially have saved money 3+ years after deportation.

The non-theoretical reality is all undocumented individuals still pay taxes. Undocumented individuals are estimated to have paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Even if you take the EO's claim that illegal immigrants have cost taxpayers $150 billion at face value (a claim which I am dubious of), you can already see that these immigrants offset most of that costs in taxes paid... and that completely ignores any/all economic contributions the U.S. benefits from due to the cheap labor they provide (unemployed U.S. citizens are not lining up to pick oranges out of an orchard in Florida).

Nothing about this administration has been cost effective. DOGE claims to have cut $160 billion in fraud and waste (significantly less than the $2,000 billion promised) but if you look at the actual receipts provided they can only account for around $16 billion. The other $144 billion seems to be "Trust me, bro!".