$46,654: Annual Cost of Detaining Illegal Alien Exceeds Average American Income Prison Planet.com Posted on April 26, 2018 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with Money Watch CNS News | ICE also made a $4,000 multiplication error in calculating its fiscal 2018 budget justification, the report said. Share this:Share Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email