The High Costs of the Proposed Flores Regulation
Philip E. Wolgin, Center for American Progress (October 19, 2018)
The Center for American Progress estimates that, over a decade, the proposed rule to dissolve the Flores Settlement, which would allow the Trump administration to indefinitely incarcerate children, would cost DHS slightly more than $2 billion at the low end, and as much as $12.9 billion at the high end.
