An economic impact assessment of the Illegal Migration Bill, which is going through Parliament, found a gross cost of £169,000 to relocate an individual.
Why don't we just get illegal migrants to do paid community service? We could employ them for two years on a living salary to provide service to the UK public, fund compulsory English lessons for those who don't speak it already, and at the end of the two years they get a national insurance number and the right to live and work here without fear. After two years it would turn illegal migrants into settled, productive, integrated members of our society - dependant on neither the state nor the black economy - and would work out well over £100k a head cheaper than the Tories' crazy plans.