people who are a drain on society. absolutely. i said it the other day on the network. $5 billion is nothing. this wall will pay for itself in a matter of a couple years because less illegal immigration means less detention costs, which is ice s budget is $8 billion a year. less detention costs, less immigration court costs, less circuit costs. let social services being used by illegal alien families that come in. because, remember, the illegal families come, in they have u.s. citizen child the first thing they do is get in social services. the cost of illegal immigration it s as high as $120 billion a year. the wall would pay for itself just from the cost savings of illegal immigration being slowed and decreased. ainsley: they also say in that study if they bring in children and grandchildren it can cost americans anywhere between 94,000 and $104,000 per illegal immigrant over the course of their lifetime. i know you sat down with the president before his oval office address. what d
it. definitively then and i have another question, is president trump happy with the immigration piece of this, with the border wall piece of this? he s totally fine, totally down, no angry tweets to come . hallie there s several things we asked for, when you say are you happy those are things we wanted to see, additional funding for i.c.e. beds and i.c.e. agents. we secured a 12% increase in dhs s budget and 10% increase in i.c.e. s budget. there are naturally compromises you need to make when working with democrats to get a final bill. we do not have sufficient republican votes alone to pass an omnibus particularly when you need 60 votes in the united states senate. let me ask byou about two other major headlines, one happening in the white house there, the tariffs announcement coming out in just a little bit. we ve already seen the dow drop a couple hundred points in anticipation of this announcement. this could really hurt for example farmers in red states if china retaliates.
countries didn t want to take them back. in a statement, homeland security says it doesn t anticipate additional releases but added, quote, that could change based on the sqegs terrify. we don t yet know what the rate will be. priority is serious criminal offenders and others that pose a threat to public safety. it s embarrassing for the government. jay carney forced the blame on custom enforcement what is referred to as i.c.e. the agency released these low risk non-criminal detainees under less form of monitoring to make sure that they were within i.c.e. s budget. priority for detention remains on other individuals that pose a significant threat to public safety. well no word from the white house on these increased numbers. about a thousand illegal immigrants have been let go in