Study: Average Arrest Costs An Immigrant's Family $24,000

Published: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 1:23pm
Updated: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 4:38pm
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How much does an immigration arrest cost the family of the person detained?

That’s one of the questions researchers aimed to answer in new data released on Wednesday.

Geoff Boyce, the academic director of the Earlham College Border Studies Program in Tucson and a visiting scholar in Mexican-American Studies at the University of Arizona, joined The Show to talk about the results they found.

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