It probably has something to do with the thriving drug trade that American money supports and the corrupt governments in those Central American countries. We have been so absorbed in meddling in the Middle East over the years that we have ignored countries that are near our borders. I guess that is because there is money in oil but major companies can do illegal drugs for profit.
Want to raise 3.7 billion dollars? Legalize and control the very drugs causing the problem. Stop filling our jails and funding the failed “war on drugs.” Find a workable solution, it’s beyond time to try a new approach.
“3.7 billion dollars divided by 50,000 illegals is $74,000 an illegal. Someone please defend that.”
I see two sides to that. One is that there have been problems with not having a coherent immigration policy and ignoring the consequences for 30 years. Therefore, we do not have the detention facilities, nor the number of judges, to properly determine “keep or throw back”. The longer we ignore it, like a road full of potholes, the more it costs to remediate it in the long run. There are way more than 50,000 people that this money will touch.
On the other hand, that’s a lot of money, and it is difficult to understand how it is all necessary. Just like $40,000 per prisoner per year.
One of the things the Reagan administration got away with was violating the Borland amendment, which prohibited the executive branch from continuing to fund the contras in Nicaragua without congressional consent.
Somehow, $100 billion tax dollars went to the contras to “help” them in their efforts to replace the corrupt Sandinistas with corrupt contras.
Hey, give me $100 billion in cash. I will go to every landowner in Nicaragua, and I’m willing to bet I could buy every square inch of that country and still have money left over to influence two or three supreme court decisions. And if I owned the country, I could do with it what I wanted.
Billions for one aircraft? How do we get to these numbers? I wonder if it’s the “darts in the dark” method.
I stand by the idea that we have underfunded the mechanisms by which immigrants are processed. But I also believe that the figures that are necessary to properly fund them should be much, much smaller. Perhaps my excessive verbiage disguised that point, and I apologize for that.
If you listen to the children coming from Central America, they have been “promised” by Obama not to be sent back, to get clothing, housing and free food. Isn’t that the Democrat platform to a tee? It costs $9,000 to the parents to send these children from Honduras which they pay to coyotes… something doesn’t add up, but the No Deportation policy announced by Obama’s executive actions have certainly incited this wave.
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member almost 10 years ago
It probably has something to do with the thriving drug trade that American money supports and the corrupt governments in those Central American countries. We have been so absorbed in meddling in the Middle East over the years that we have ignored countries that are near our borders. I guess that is because there is money in oil but major companies can do illegal drugs for profit.
Odon Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Want to raise 3.7 billion dollars? Legalize and control the very drugs causing the problem. Stop filling our jails and funding the failed “war on drugs.” Find a workable solution, it’s beyond time to try a new approach.
locoboilerguy almost 10 years ago
This is a good point. Considering my wife and I live on 25K a year just fine are we planning on putting these kids through college.
I Play One On TV almost 10 years ago
“3.7 billion dollars divided by 50,000 illegals is $74,000 an illegal. Someone please defend that.”
I see two sides to that. One is that there have been problems with not having a coherent immigration policy and ignoring the consequences for 30 years. Therefore, we do not have the detention facilities, nor the number of judges, to properly determine “keep or throw back”. The longer we ignore it, like a road full of potholes, the more it costs to remediate it in the long run. There are way more than 50,000 people that this money will touch.
On the other hand, that’s a lot of money, and it is difficult to understand how it is all necessary. Just like $40,000 per prisoner per year.
One of the things the Reagan administration got away with was violating the Borland amendment, which prohibited the executive branch from continuing to fund the contras in Nicaragua without congressional consent.
Somehow, $100 billion tax dollars went to the contras to “help” them in their efforts to replace the corrupt Sandinistas with corrupt contras.
Hey, give me $100 billion in cash. I will go to every landowner in Nicaragua, and I’m willing to bet I could buy every square inch of that country and still have money left over to influence two or three supreme court decisions. And if I owned the country, I could do with it what I wanted.
Billions for one aircraft? How do we get to these numbers? I wonder if it’s the “darts in the dark” method.
I Play One On TV almost 10 years ago
Understood. You are correct; this is madness.
I stand by the idea that we have underfunded the mechanisms by which immigrants are processed. But I also believe that the figures that are necessary to properly fund them should be much, much smaller. Perhaps my excessive verbiage disguised that point, and I apologize for that.
Odon Premium Member almost 10 years ago
$1,000 per bed?Perhaps that number includes pillows, a roof, adult oversight, an occasional meal.
6.6TA almost 10 years ago
This incoming sea of children, and associated numbers of children who died on the way, is a human tragedy which may be headed for a catastrophe.
This cartoon is just a graphic version of one of the talking points cruising around the Fox stage.
Something is wrong with this picture. Badly wrong.
jefferis Premium Member almost 10 years ago
If you listen to the children coming from Central America, they have been “promised” by Obama not to be sent back, to get clothing, housing and free food. Isn’t that the Democrat platform to a tee? It costs $9,000 to the parents to send these children from Honduras which they pay to coyotes… something doesn’t add up, but the No Deportation policy announced by Obama’s executive actions have certainly incited this wave.
oneoldhat almost 10 years ago
dear I play $74000 is for lawyers belonging to advocacy org
LOLisgood4U almost 10 years ago
Beautiful dreamer, dream on.