At $775 a day per to cage migrant workers, we could be housing them in Vegas luxury hotels

[stopbush]

with free meals, maid service and $200 a day in gambling money.

[FiveGoodMen]

1. K&R

[shanny]

2. a point that should be made over and over

to all the "fiscal conservatives" out there

[MontanaMama]

3. Besides the abject cruelty (which is the point)

this is so important! I keep hearing that we should be able to afford providing essential services when the reality is we ARE ALREADY PAYING THIS BILL! The money is being squirreled away by for profit prison/detention companies. Follow the goddamn money! Our government is being defrauded by corporations promising to provide services to detainees that they are not providing. I submit that the maladministration appears to be fine with this but this corruption is widespread. Follow the money.

[DBoon]

4. That money isn't just for room and board

depriving a child of their humanity can be very expensive. Consider it an added cost.

[stopbush]

5. Almost none of it is for room and board. It's to pay for the bloated overhead

of these for-profit dungeons.

[Blue_true]

6. I wrote something similar yesterday.

Even today, $750 buys a good hotel room, plenty of food and drinks if people want that, and then there is money left over.

I just don't see $750 per person per day for people packed into cages. Somewhere along the line a Trump family member or associate is getting a big kickback. Corruption on a breathtaking level.