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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I think every one of the illegals obama is allowing into our country shoul be sent directly to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It is a big white building and has a fence all around it. It is a very secure facility.
Of course he doesn’t want them to be sent back to where they came from. He is trying to create an ever lasting voter base for the lib socialist left.
The government has failed and is now collapsing
put them on a MAC flight to Soto Cano
$250 a day , I know the POS is INSANE NOW, most in this Country live on a hell of a lot less than that, SEND THEIR ASSES BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM and your ass needs to return to KENYA where you came From !!
Yes!
Only if we seal the border! Otherwise we’ll be flying many waves of illegal immigrants home! Somehow Obama could care less. Let’s see him use that pen of his just once too do something right, Seal the Border!!!
shoot them
Makes me wonder which one of his friends will be making the profit on this?
Start charging the nations where these people come from, to return them. All of these countries have accounts in the US, we should just debit these accounts for the costs of returning these people.