We saw this happening at the time. The Obama Economic Clusterfark continues…
The Obama administration paid a Texas-based group more than $182 million to provide shelter services for illegal immigrant children at two military facilities for four months this summer.
The Department of Health and Human Services paid the group, BCFS, nearly $76,000 per child to provide shelter at two 1,200-bed facilities maintained at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio and Fort Sill Army Base in Oklahoma, according to the government watchdog group Judicial Watch, which received documents laying out the expenses through a Freedom of Information Act request.
An estimated 90,000 UACs entered the U.S. this year, mostly from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Federal law requires that — rather than immediate deportation — minors from countries that do not border the U.S. be turned over to the federal health department while they work through the immigration court system.
Expenses for the 1,200-bed Fort Sill facility totaled $104,215,608. Another $77,914,178 was spent to maintain the 1,200-bed Lackland Air Force Base unit.
That works out to $86,846 that American taxpayers paid per bed at the Fort Sill facility, which operated between June 12 and Oct. 18.
In the not so distant future, there will be a whole new genre of political books: The Corruption of the Obama Administration.
And countless Ph.D. dissertations in political science on that topic….
That works out to something approaching $700 per person per day. For that money they could have put ’em up at the Ritz with around-the-clock room service and supervised excursions to Disneyland. Now don’t you feel silly shopping around for bargain lodging on your little pathetic vacations?
Outrageous. Follow the money. Who is BCFS and how does a nonprofit get that kind of money from the Feds? It sounds like a redistribution of our money to some of OBammy’s cronies to me. Why not? Better get it while the gettin’s good.
Wow, I see the cost of HUMAN SMUGGLING across the Southern Borders has increased, great job President Obama!
45 year old “children.”