Instead of simply driving the illegals to an airport and flying them back to their country, which would cost for one-half of 1 percent of the $3.8 billion Obama wants – Obama wants to house the illegals at a cost of $250 per day per person.
Makes one think he doesn’t want to send them home, doesn’t it?
Most of his proposal is to pay living expenses. At the unofficial reported cost of $250 per person per day, President Barack Obama is proposing we spend $1.8 billion “to provide appropriate care for unaccompanied children.” That works out to 19,726 minors for a year. (The official term for them, written into federal statute, is “undocumented alien children.” Not undocumented immigrants, migrants or refugees. Those other terms are efforts at propaganda.)
In addition, Obama wants another $879 million “for detention and removal of apprehended undocumented adults traveling with children,” and “alternatives to detention programs” for these adults. He blends “removal” with “detention” to make it impossible to determine how many removals are planned.
If the money is all for detention, then the $250 per person reveals the plan is to house 9,632 adults for a year at taxpayers’ expense.
Combine 19,726 minors with 9,632 adults and you have 29,358 people. But it gets worse. The request is for a “supplemental appropriation.” In budget lingo, that typically means it’s for the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. If these funds don’t cover a full year, either the cost per person is much higher or the number of people is much higher.
If the daily cost per person is less than $250, then the small city of illegal aliens we’re supporting will be larger than 29,358.
Although Obama asks for lots of money to take care of people permanently, he gives zero details about a timeframe for deporting or repatriating any of the persons involved.
The $250 a day figure compares with the $667 one-way cost of an airline ticket from McAllen, Texas, to Guatemala City, Guatemala, according to both Orbitz and Priceline. The combined airfare for 29,358 passengers would be $19.6 million. That is one-half of 1 percent of President Obama’s overall $3.8 billion request. Volume discounts and government rates would yield even lower fares. But even without discounts, sending everyone home right away saves taxpayers 99.5 percent!
Source: washingtontimes.com
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JENNIFER WILKONSON CROWDER
From the looks of things in the pictures I’ve seen, they’re certainly NOT better off here.
They won’t be happy till they get this whole thing all screwed up.
William wilberforce law of 2008 is what the issue is no one here will believe it and blame Obama so go on the Attack
He doesn’t want to send them home until after the election….and then they are someone elses problem!!!
Yep there is a lot more to this issue, than is coming out..
for sure SANDRA DEASON JOHNSON
again O and his ominions are all about wasting tax dollars and he relishes the thought of using good intentions as an excuse, his goal is to waste the treasure of the U.S. on anything
The future drug lords and gang members and all will commit crimes and breed kids like rabbetts plus soak up welfare, housing, food stamps, get free hospital care, etc. etc. etc.
obama IS TRYING TO SEE HOW MUCH WE WILL TAKE BE FOR WE DO SOMETHING ,I DONT KNOW ABOUT ANY BODY ELSE ,BUT I AM READY TO SEND THEM BACK AND PUT obama in THE THAT FIRST GROUP