Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 53 (2021) Ghosts in America: Working Towards Building a Legal Framework for Stateless Individuals in the United States emotional support. 342 Indefinite detention interferes with their ability to work and support their families, resulting in additional costs to the government, which often must step in and provide for these families.343 Fourth, the cost of time spent by detention and removal officers on follow-up with countries that will not claim stateless individuals is wasteful spending. 344 For example, Keyse Jama was a Somalian national who argued that Somalia would never issue him travel documents because it did not have a functioning government. 345 The United States Supreme Court held that the immigration officials did not need the target country’s consent for removal. 346 Given the high-profile nature of his case, Immigration officials promptly flew Jama to Somalia on a private jet and hired private escorts to take him through the airport.347 However, because Jama did not have travel documents, he was denied entry into Somalia and sent back to the United States. 348 This failed attempt to remove Keyse Jama cost taxpayers an estimated two hundred thousand dollars. 349 While this is not a common occurrence, it demonstrates the potential excessive cost to the taxpayer from an unsuccessful deportation attempt. C) A Legislative Solution The fourth recommendation would be the implementation of a legislative solution modelled after the 2013 S. 744 bill (S. 744 2.0),350 which would incorporate stateless individuals into the United States immigration legal framework. S. 744 proposed a legal definition of stateless person that would be incorporated into the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA); an application procedure, which includes eligibility criteria, exclusions and waivers, and rules for employment authorization and derivative beneficiaries; considerations for stateless persons to adjust status to Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR); some information about evidentiary considerations; and provisions 342. Id. 343. Id. 344. Baluarte, supra note 20, at 366. 345. Id. at 362. 346. Id. 347. Id. 348. Id. 349. Id. 350. See generally Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, S. 744, 113th Cong. (2013) [hereinafter Border Security]. 394