Why make such a petulant, hyperbolic leap? Not only that, but this thread isn’t about what you’re trying to make it about. My thread, my topic. Stay on it. If you want to talk about immigrant kids being treated poorly or being affiliated with gangs, etc., hey, start a thread, go for it.
This thread is about the COST of separating families being more than the cost of keeping them together. If you don’t want to discuss that, then continually trying to change to the subject to something else looks like a really desperate attempt to defend Trump.
Just a reminder that AG Session’s shutdown a program last year for asylum seekers that was costing $36/day per family and “99 percent of the program’s participants “successfully attended their court appearances and ICE check-ins.”.
The kids are not being kept in “Tent Cities” longer than 72 hours period. Those are ICE facilities, not HHS facilities where the kids are transferred from the processing/intake facilities.
Building new permanent facilities to handle the overflow during this surge would be an insanely expensive and wasteful answer to a temporary problem.
The better solution is to build the wall and secure the border and do whatever else we can reasonably to discourage further surges in the future.
More accurately, DHS is looking at setting up some tent city facilities to handle the influx of “unaccompanied minors” just as they had to do during surges under the previous administration.
The kids being separated from parents who illegally entered the country are not being shoved off some place to live in squalor while their parents’ cases are adjudicated.
You didn’t even bother reading your own cited article did you?
With the program scheduled to close on June 20, future asylum-seekers who aren’t held in detention centers are likely to end up in “intensive supervision” programs—a cost-effective alternative to family case management. The AP writes that case management programs cost around $36 a day for one family, while intensive supervision programs cost between $5 and $7 for each individual. “By discontinuing [family case management], ICE will save more than $12 million a year—money which can be utilized for other programs which more effectively allow ICE to discharge its enforcement and removal responsibilities," Rodriguez said in a statement. The trade-off, however, is that asylum-seekers will have access to fewer resources and will likely be forced to wear uncomfortable ankle monitors.
Where exactly is it that anyone has suggested the fines are covering the costs?
They are here illegally and being adjudicated appropriately then they are being appropriately deported.
There is a cost to enforcing the border which is a pittance compared to not doing so. Illegal immigration costs us hundreds of billions of dollars each year.
Wintson blackmailed officials, forged travel documents, stole letter-head of more impressive organization and created a fake division all to help children flee.
