Something Else To Think About

You have heard about ICE in Minnesota and other states and all of the atrocities they are committing but also consider the $$$$$$!

CE Has Not Released The Taxpayer Cost Of Its Twin Cities Operation, So A County Commissioner Did The Math

DHS has not released a cost figure, so a Dakota County commissioner calculated what the massive operation could be costing taxpayers.

William Bornhoft,

Patch

Posted Mon, Jan 12, 2026 

As massive federal immigration enforcement continues across the Twin Cities, a Dakota County commissioner said residents on different sides of the immigration debate are asking the same question: how much the operation costs and who is paying for it.

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Using publicly available federal salary and travel data, Atkins said he attempted to calculate the cost himself, relying on what he described as the most conservative assumptions possible.

“Using the most conservative assumptions possible — for example, assuming every one of the roughly 2,000 ICE officers on the ground here is in their first year of employment and earning the lowest allowable salary — the cost to taxpayers comes out to: ABOUT $786,000 PER DAY,” Atkins wrote.

STOP WHAT? Over three quarters of a million dollars a day! 7days X $786,000/day = over five and a quarter million dollars and counting! And that doesn't count the cost to housing all those detainees which is, ICE is being charge $70 to $90 per inmate per day!