• @finitebanjo
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    5010 days ago

    Thats $1841.67 per Migrant.

    Not counting legal fees incurred by retaliation from the migrants.

    • subignition
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      2310 days ago

      so an empathetic government could have actually just handed them all relief checks a la COVID

      • @finitebanjo
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        2810 days ago

        Or ironically just let them be so they don’t cost taxpayers money, something Repugnantcans claim to care about.

    • fmstrat
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      38 days ago

      If you’re going to quote, might as well make it worse:

      “By comparison, a bus ticket to New York costs about $215, while a flight costs about $350,” he highlighted. “It would have WAY cheaper to just give migrants money for tickets. Abbott’s effort not only made it a political stunt, it lined a contractor’s pocket.”