According to the article:
"A March study by the liberal Center for American Progress estimated that deporting the entire illegal immigration population and securing the borders would cost $285 billion over five years".
Who gives a rat's ass? Those jerkwads in Congress spend $285 billion on their pork barrel projects all the time. But it's blatantly apparent that they don't want to defend and protect American citizens' rights to be secure in their own homes and persons. They'd rather have the cheap labor and the votes, although both require breaking the law to obtain. But, after all, since when is a Democratic Adminstration and Congress concerned with such petty issues as the law, except to pervert it for their own means. Case in point, the federal lawsuit against Arizona.