Tuesday, May 29, 2007

ID cards and Illegal immigrants

The government has estimated the cost of the ID card scheme at around £9Billion over 10 years. A group of independent experts estimated it to be more like £20Billion. Given one of the alleged benefits of the scheme is tighter control on illegal immigrants, and the employers who give them work, I wonder whether the costs include any assumptions for the processing, deportation or prosecution of the additional illegal expected to be caught?

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