2015
“The cost over four years just for locking up these immigrants totaled $5.8 billion, with local jails and state prisons spending $1.7 billion. Today, that number is even higher, as efforts to capture and deport them have intensified,” Newsweek wrote of a 2005 report. In August, Kristi Noem announced that in her first 200 days as Department of Homeland Security secretary, 1.6 million illegal immigrants had left the United States. So far this fiscal year through August, 470,213 deportation orders had been issued, with 50,122 in the month of August alone.
1997
“According to 1996 figures, 2.6 million kids…were in publicly funded learning disabilities programs. In 1977, about 800,000…had been diagnosed,” Newsweek wrote. The most recent data found 2.4 million U.S. school-age students had a specific learning disability, 32…
