The President of the United States, Donald Trump Alligator Alcatraz Immigration finding facility in the Everglades before she gets her first prisoners.
“It is known as an alligator Alcatraz, which is very suitable because I looked outside and that is not a place where I want to hike,” Trump told the media during a live stream event on Tuesday. “But very soon this facility will accommodate some of the most threatening migrants, some of the most malignant people in the world.”
Trump campaigned for the presidency to combat immigration, but faces a lack of detention bed. The A big beautiful billTrump’s tax and expenditure plan, said goodbye to the Senate during his stop in Florida and contains $ 150 billion for his deportation agenda over four years.
State officials quickly built the expected 5,000-bed facility to hang immigrants over a decades of landing. The Department of Homeland Security has set the one-year costs for the management of the facility at $ 450 million, for which the protection and service program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is paid for.
Florida officials, including the former governor of Trump, Ron Desantis, joined the President and Homeland Protection Minister Kristi Noem for the tour. Desantis said that Noem’s team informed him that the facility would be opened after Trump’s departure in order to maintain prisoners.
Trump spoke for more than an hour when he asked questions about who could lose the reporting on the health care of Medicaid as part of the tax and expenditure laws, reacted warmly to a proposal to deal with former President Joe Bidens Minister of Homeland Protection Alejandro Mayorkas, and repeated a frequent complaint about shower heads that lacked sufficient water pressure. Noem meanwhile said that the US immigration and customs authority arrested a “cannibal” that began to “eat himself” in an airplane.
Here is a fact that has checked some of Trump’s comments:
Trump’s ‘illegal foreigner’ cost estimate comes from the group that is committed to low immigration levels
While Trump was over the goal of reducing the federal budget, Trump said: “The average illegal alien costs American taxpayers estimated 70,000 US dollars.”
This is a lifelong estimate of an organization that supports a low level of immigration. Critics have questioned this.
The White House quoted a statement from 2024 to a committee in the House of Representatives of Steven a Camarota, research director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
Camarota said in writing: “The lifelong fiscal drain (taxes, the minus costs paid) for every illegal immigrant is around 68,000 US dollars.” He based his estimate on the tax effects of the immigrants according to the level of education.
Camarota said that the estimate was associated with restrictions, including how much percent of immigrants in the United States illegally used the social programs and the amount of the services they have received and their use of public schools and emergency services.
Other analyzes show positive economic effects of undocumented immigrants in the United States.
The congressional budget office (CBO), an impartial research arm of the congress, showed in a report from 2024 both costs and advantages of increasing immigration of the bid period. On the net, as CBO found, the effects in several areas were positive.
The CBO estimated an increase in gross domestic product by 8.9 trillion dollars – a measurement of general economic activity – over 10 years due to the immigration climber that would improve wages, salaries and corporate profits. The CBO also estimated that due to increased tax revenue by immigrants, the federal deficits would decrease by almost 1 trillion US dollar, which the estimated the authority would outweigh the costs that they have imposed in the form of additional federal expenses.
Regardless of this, the libertarian Cato Institute found in 2023 that “immigrants are generated in the state, local, local and federal taxes of almost 1 trillion US dollar (in 2024 dollars), which is almost $ 300 billion more than they receive in state services, including cash aid, claims and public education.”
Michael a Clemens, an economist at George Mason University, told Polifact that he and other economists, although the Center for Immigration Studies illegally counted the use of public schools in the United States, and other economists in public school financing.
Trump repeats the conspiracy theory “autopen” over bidges
Trump said: “We have a lot of bad criminals who came into the country. … It was an unfounded mistake. It was an incompetent president who allowed it. It was a car that allowed it.”
He referred to a conspiracy theory in Pro-Trump circles that bidges were so out of the loop during his own presidency that the helpers were able to repeat his signature repeatedly with a mechanical car to pursue their own political goals.
No evidence has appeared to indicate that a document that signed bidges – whether by car or not – was carried out without his knowledge or approval. Everything that Biden signed with a car would have been valid, say legal experts.
In March we rated Trump’s claim that bidens were not valid because they were signed with a car INCORRECT. US presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, have routinely subordinated in their name.
Trump falsely says that Policy Bill only aims Medicaid “waste, fraud and abuse”
During his visit, reporter Trump asked for the great beautiful law that the Senate approved in the middle of the visit-and its effects on Medicaid. “Do you want to say that the estimated 11.8 million people who could lose their health insurance are all waste, fraud and abuse?” Asked a reporter.
Trump said: “No, I don’t say that. I say it will be a much smaller number than this, and this number will be waste, fraud and abuse.”
We have evaluated a similar version of Trump’s statement INCORRECTand determine that the Medicaid changes go beyond waste, fraud and abuse.
The 11.8 million number comes from a CBO analysis of the Law on Senate.
Although some provisions could improve the recognition of beneficiaries that are not justified, other provisions of the House of Representatives and the Senate calculations would change the health program for low -income Americans to align themselves with Trump’s ideology and republican priorities.
The draft law indicates the states to hire their own funds to illegally cover the people in the United States. It requires people to work or carry out another approved activity to secure advantages. And it prohibits medicaid payments for gender-known care and non-profit organizations such as planned parenthood, which, among other things, provide abortions.
Other changes would impose copays and a shorter window for the retroactive cover. These would change the fiscal outlook of the program, but would not target waste, no fraud or no abuse.
Trump double estimate of the immigrants under bidges
Trump said: “In the four years before I took office, Joe Biden allowed 21 million people, … illegal aliens, enter our country.”
This campaign discussion remains INCORRECT. During the tenure of bidges, immigration officers met that immigrants illegally crossed the US limit about 10 million times. When taking “got-aways” people into account, the border officials dodge-the number rises to around 11.6 million.
Encounters are not the same as approvals. Encounters represent events, so one person who tries to cross the border twice is two encounters. In addition, not everyone who is let into the country is met. The department for home protection authority estimated Around 4 million encounters under bidges led to wipe out or move.
During the bidens administration approximately 3.8 million people If the Ministry of Homeland Protection has been released to expect the immigration court’s hearings to expect the immigration court.
Political researcher Caryn Baird and the author Ella Moore contributed to this article.
