cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/31800514
“There’s no reason to build this in Guantánamo unless you want to do things you don’t think you could get away with on the U.S. mainland. It’s easy to put tents in Florida. But they’re putting them in Cuba. Ask yourself why.”
Chuds can finally knock off their bullshit about migrants “being a burden” on taxpayers or whatever, we all knew that was an excuse. They obviously have no problem with the gov’t spending millions, possibly billions, of their tax dollars on a facility that’s solely dedicated holding migrants.
The average cost to ICE to deport a single person during the Biden administration was about $10,500
Literally cheaper to just give every person who shows up at the border $5,000 in cash, a waiver on the application fee to become a US citizen, and a bus ticket to anywhere in the country.
net positive in revenue in the long run too