$700+ per day per person for immigrant detention?

[MineralMan]

Ridiculous! At that cost, they could be in hotels with room service for less money.

Here's what we could tell them:

"Welcome to the United States of America. While you are waiting for your asylum request to be processed, we have these rooms available for you and your family. They include daily housekeeping services. You can dine in the hotel's restaurant or order room service if you do not feel like eating in the restaurant. We hope you are comfortable, and we will try to expedite your application for asylum. If you need medical care, please visit the clinic on the first floor. A nurse is there to assist you all day. If there is an emergency, just dial 911 on the telephone."

A shuttle bus is available to take you to any hearings that are scheduled, and translators are always available in the hotel lobby. If you have arrived with insufficient clothing, please feel free to visit the clothing distribution center to select additional clothing for yourself and your family. You will also find stationery, stamped envelopes and other necessities available there to help you communicate with your families."

We could do it that way, too, you know. It would save a lot of money.

[notdarkyet]

1. I would like to see an accounting of the money. They are not spending it on immigrants. Whose

Pockets is it going in?

[redstatebluegirl]

4. I am sure it goes to 45's rich friends with a kickback to his family some way.

He doesn't do anything he doesn't profit from.

[diva77]

9. correction: "accomplices" not "friends"

[Ohiogal]

2. But, then,

Mitch McConnell, Marsha Blackburn, Marco Rubio, et al, would lose out on all that profiteering! And it wouldn’t be cruel! Heavens, MM, what are you thinking? lol

[treestar]

3. Yes, I'd love to see the break down

No doubt there are costs we aren't thinking of, but this is looking like the $5000 screw sold to the Pentagon. People being paid by the government can't resisit padding the charges, since the government will pay its bills and not have the time to check things out.

There must be something going to security, making the facility a place people can't escape from. But still, it would seem like at that cost, toothpaste and soap wouldn't be unaffordable.

part of the problem is that those facilities were not meant to keep people for more than 12 hours, so they'd need ones more like jails than ones just like an airport holding area.

[Mach1miles]

5. We could have many things...

...but this abuse is intentional. They want these people to be afraid to come here. It’s a typical Trump more. He Cut funding to these countries and forced the people to flock to our door creating his border disaster. And here we are. At any rate $700 a Day should provide a bed, shower, toilet, food and water that doesn’t come from the toilet. It might even provide day care so the kids could get out of the cage during the day but he is not into comfort of any kind unless it is his or possibly his family’ s.

[Calculating]

6. Exactly

Plenty on the other side are cheering for the bad conditions. They want life to really suck for detained immigrants as a way to deter others from trying to come here.

[MineralMan]

7. Yes. I know what their attitude is.

I'm suggesting, though, that we be kind instead. It would cost us no more that it is costing us now, and we'd be welcoming asylum-seekers, which is the humane thing to do.

I want to see the USA being a model for the world, not a model of ugliness. That's what we are under Donald Trump.

When the Hmong refugees arrived in Minnesota, they were met with people who wanted to help them find their way here and adjust to their new home. That began in the 1970s, and now Minnesota is home to the largest population of Hmong people outside of Asia. We've done similar things for the Somali refugees who have arrived here.

In both cases, there have been some problems but, in time, most of those have been solved, and we're now seeing the third generation of Hmong-Americans growing up. Their parents have opened businesses and we have a Hmong immigrant as the State Senator in my state Senate district. A third of my neighborhood is now made up of Hmong families who have bought homes and are raising families.

That is how the United States should be treating those who come here to escape horrible situations somewhere else. Let's help them, not jail them. We've done it before, and there are models for how to make that happen. The current situation is horrible.

[Mach1miles]

12. I agree.

We are going to spend the money to keep them home or transition them when they get here. Love and support will produce strong new members of our society or....we can try the Trump method. Even ignoring the fact that how we are treating them is a disgrace, these people are going to hate us and that is a very dangerous thing.

[gratuitous]

8. Sure we could do it that way

But how would well-connected white guys get paid? And how could we not let the sadists get their jollies by torturing and killing people? Do you even think about the wealthy and the cruel before you post this kind of stuff? This would make them feel just terrible. Just shows who the real monsters are here.

[MineralMan]

10. What could I have been thinking?

I'm so embarrassed not to have thought of the wealthy...

[NewJeffCT]

11. you have to realize that

$500 of that is graft designed to line the pockets of Team Trump and the private prison organizations.