Really? It's more like $3600 for some in New York State. How much do people receive in Florida?

All part of the GOP plan. The only math they know is that all money should flow in the direction of billionaires. It should not be used for the benefit of the bottom 90 percent, or for vaccines, research, health care, education, humanitarian aid, disaster relief, etc.

Hypocrisy abounds in this regime. #PedoPOTUS

But Felon Trump says the tariffs are bringing in billions and the stock market keeps hitting new highs never before seen! Where is all the money going? Or to whom?

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Here’s your waste, fraud, and abuse.

A thought experiment... $1B is $1000M. $1M would put most families in the US on solid financial footing. $1B invested conservatively might net you about 5%/yr - or $50M. With $100B you could lift 99,000 families out of poverty & still be raking in $50M/yr. Every billionaire is a policy failure.

RebelScum (dum/shit) here, Better thought experiment... We should be doing everything Henry Wallace declared in 1945. We should shut everything down in a Ghandi style non-participation revolt. The intl banking system & fed needs to go. Most of western civilization needs to go. It's unsustainable.

But ….. but ….. Hunter’s laptop ….. and ….. um …… the birth certificate ….. and ….. uh ….. Benghazi ….. and ….. and ….. the tan suit …. and ….. um ….. OH MY GOD WHAT ABOUT THE EMAILS

A new type of math: autocraticabra.

Wow! That gives their choices a good, hard dose of reality. Beyond being stupid and cruel, they are extremely corrupt. I wonder who is benefitting most from building and running these prisons? Disgusting.

It's not a prison, it's a concentration camp.

Paid for by Your tax money.

I don't know about u, but if my tax money was going to build my prison I'd want my money back or something. Maybe a revolt or something. Or Ghandi style nonparticipation shutdown in everything, etc. But y'all are greedy until the very end & refuse to act.

There is truth to this. The stock market is doing generally well so people go along with it.

I heard it's officially pronounced "Alligator Auchwitz"

I mean, we're assuming that they're going to keep all those people for a year...

Once they install the gas chambers, the cost per victim will drop dramatically.

Seriously. The amount this administration is spending to deal with immigrants is probably 1000% more than it would cost to treat them humanely. Its never been about the law or justice or saving money (*cough*, ballroom, golf trips etc). This administration is a hateful clown circus. It x 100.

Something tells me you’re not happy with the current state of affairs😂

If you think that money is for taking care of the prisoners, you're not paying very close attention to the levels of greed and grift of this administration

Florida Republicans are the dumbest of the dumb.

Not to mention the majority of these people were WORKING for a LIVING, helping to harvest crops, clean hotels, mowing yards etc. so they were NOT TAKING MONEY from OUR Govt they were HELPING the economy by then SPENDING their earnings to buy food, housing etc.! Many were PAYING TAXES as well!

Now compare that to Congress who gets a $30,000 a yr spending limit to cover living expenses when in DC, on TOP of their BIG SALARY & HUGE BENEFITS that WE the PEOPLE PAY FOR, yet they AREN'T WORKING for US, they're WORKING for Trump! Who's the REAL PARASITES & GRIFTERS?🤬

The base salary for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives is $174,000 per year, according to the National Taxpayers Union. This is the same salary received by all rank-and-file members of Congress, both in the House and the Senate.

Yes, I'm aware of that so what's your point? The $30K is in ADDITION to their salaries!

I thought your audience would like more information. Does that upset you?

No, It just wasn't clear why you posted it. For example if you had worded it something like "Just F.Y.I. for those who may not know what Congress gets paid it's $174K a year" it would've been more clear as to why you posted it.

The base pay for Senators is $174,000 per year, according to the U.S. Senate. This salary has remained at this level since 2009, despite automatic cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) that were denied by Congress.

“Where’s the cruelty in providing SNAP?” asked GOP members disapprovingly. “The cruelty per dollar spent is much higher for Alligator Alcatraz, so that’s where taxpayer dollars need to go!”

No-one is doing anything about it though. Except posting on SM.

None of that money will go to feeding, clothing, or providing safe and sanitary conditions to the kidnapped people they're holding in that Nazi architecture throwback.

Arrow points at the big Diesel Generators right outside tent walls! Too close for the fuel and the Exhaust will go right into tents! Goes to ground goes into tent! Heavier than air! Confined Space Rescuer 16 years! Haz-Mat Spills or release Operator same.

And no one listened.......until it was too late....

Not an accident. They’re hoping for as many deaths as possible

Prison cell bed $28k a year Florida State Prison!

I received $3 a day. That’s it! I wish it would have been $2000 a year!!!

In a kleptocracy, corrupt politicians [or unelected CEOs like fElon Musk] enrich themselves secretly outside the rule of law, through kickbacks, bribes, and special favors from lobbyists and corporations, or they simply direct state funds to themselves and their associates. (Wikipedia)

Yep, nice definition 👍 Wish you followed people back, it would make you look like a team player

It’s all about the grift. The money is going in pockets not in the concentration camps. They don’t care about the people.

It was never about saving money

Also, no way that costs $450m a year. The annual kick-back must be at least 50%.

Thank you. It is a money siphon for trump and desantis. I refuse to capitalize their names btw

Even 50% seems low. The infrastructure was already in place. Initial capex to pop this tent up: ~$10-15m On-going opex: utilities; de minimis maintenance; slightly above avg min wage labor costs for 100-150 guards and other personnel; salaries for a layer of managers; food; supplies.. $~50m(?)

You’re right!! Crap, they are such grifters.

It's all worth it to tell poor people, "Fuck you, die already."

That's what he has done to everything including the budget. Took away employees that were working for the American people and wasted more money than he claimed to say on a "free airplane" and turning the WH into a car lot with a 200 million dollar ballroom. The airplane he thinks is personal.

And you know they’re not spending $150k on each person!! Someone is pocketing a lot of money!

Call it for what it is, "A concentration camp."

I don’t even get $150,000 worth of benefits in 10 years! Are they eating filets and shitting in gold toilets

True autocrats don't gold-plate the dog-turds. The GOP needs one US election before they become total Nazis. So they're pushing the media to prettify government activities and say euphemisms while not reporting the true damage by D. of G.E., "small government", tariffs and kidnapping farm-workers.

IDK, I think the jokey names are worse--they laugh at and mock the dehumanizing and torture. It's arguably worse than the clinical, bureaucratic detachment of the Nazi death camps.

This is where you are at. Rise up on peaceful protest.

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Vote these worthless, lying Republican bastards out. Only way this Democracy survives these fascists is if we the people vote their corrupt asses OUT!

The head hog should just use it for his anal pore retreat home

Who's getting that 450m?

This might explain why trump’s businesses always failed.

Money laundering

In cases like this the back door is key to unlocking why it exists in the first place. Recall Governors of Fla and Texas were first in trafficking migrants. Now they are first in concentration camps in not locations to build anything.

Because it's about your taxes going into private funds, not about stopping immigration. So they maximize the taxes that are spent on this, so the people that own those facilities make more money. Americans will get poorer from immigrants being locked up, instead of working.

Trump fuct children

Shelter animals in America are treated better than those going w/o adequate food, beds, daily showers/changes of clothing, medication, etc. in overcrowded cells. Keeping lights on 24/7 to keep detainees sleep deprived is torture. The Trump Administration is all about cruelty, power and control.

You forgot to add in the taxes that were paid by those now incarcerated. Never mind that the situation is illegal

It's not a prison. It's a concentration camp.

Nothing makes ever sense when it comes from a dictator.

The simple solution to the conundrum is that people won't be getting held there for an entire year, and that there's a "final solution" to the economic problem of overcrowding that the MAGAts aren't talking about. And yes, I do know the historical context of that phrasing.

Wait till you find out their buddies own all the concentration camps so they're actually fine with it because it's not to "take care of migrants," it's to make their buddies rich as they maximize profits by barely keeping detainees alive. Private prisons are a disgrace and a tarnish on our nation.

FYI: ALL DEMORATS ARE DISSIDENTS. THEY WILL TAKE EVERYTHING FROM YOU & PUT U THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. ILLEGALS & LGBTQ FIRST. THEN WHEN NO ONE DOES ANYTHING THEY'LL START ON MINORITY OWNED BUSINESSES, ETC.

Um, the Republicans did all this stuff.

It's all a dog n pony show. The real power is behind the scenes. The swamp of swamps. Case in point; pedo nation

Cruelty is the point...

Thank you

Plus, SNAP helps farmers, grocers and families; and all those people contribute to the economy!

You spelled concentration camp / death camp wrong.

Death Camps are exactly what they are. this guy supposed committed suicide, in the shower, all alone ? What's in a shower that you could possibly have hung yourself with ?? This is what's happening !!! abcnews.go.com/US/ice-detai...

Any and all deaths in ice custody are on Drumpf! This is his fault!! He needs to be charged with all the deaths as murders. Premeditated murders. Lock him up and throw away the key!!!!

American Auschwitz

Yeah ...

But by doing that, they can punish more people. The cruelty is the point.

Pure evil!!!

Trumps family and friends don’t profit off another way they do imprisoning human being. Dog kennels are very profitable for heartless scumbag bigots

I could do a lot of good with $450 million . And not spend a penny on a concentration/death camp.

It's not about saving money. It's about rampant racism, hatred of poor people, who they believe are not white so are undeserving of help. The only people the Republican Party wants in these United States of Trump are rich, white men. They hate women too and want us to be property again.

Yes but: racism

Call it what it is: a concentraion camp.

@papst-ny.bsky.social

Someone else pointed out that we would save a great deal of money if we would let these law abiding immigrants continue to work at their jobs and pay taxes, instead of spending millions on untrained Ice officers who are rounding them up indiscriminately and putting them in expensive prisons.

The Four Seasons would be cheaper.

What is not factored into the equation is the cost of beefing up ICE to provide ready troops for when the coup comes.

These are the companies who profit from concentration camps

Right, Can't feed our children or provide homes for our VETERAN'S..... but they have BILLIONS to pay for PRISONS & UGLY ballrooms NOBODY asked for....& what the hell happened to the ROSE GARDEN⁉️🤯👹 Stop wasting our money on your BULLSHIT⁉️💙🌊⚖😱 #justicematters #dueprosessmatters #NOKINGS EVER⁉️😉

Oh and don't forget, he says he has gotten trillions from tariffs but nobody in the United States has gotten any benefit in terms of lower prices at the gas station. So what is he doing with those trillions..wasn't it supposed to be lower prices and America first?

They won’t stop wasting money. Because nobody will stop them. No judge is brave enough to stand up and the people would rather sit home and post memes

Think of the housing and job training programs that could be provided for $150K.

#FollowTheMoney

After a $ 5 million dollar donation( or bribe) Trump put on hold a plan put in place by President Biden which would have saved more than a Billion dollars for Bandages which cost Medicare over $ 11,000 per square inch. Now that is why he bankrupted six casinos. Real mental genius.

That’s 150k per person going to the owners of the private prison company that runs it. The 2.2k has no short term financial benefits for any of trumps creditors. The fact that tax dollars pay for both should really generate more public outcry than it does. Americans don’t care about their taxes.

they only care that it's not going to help someone else. Little known fact: that's how taxes work.

Such liars

I think 450 million was the cost of the facility, which lasts for more than a year. They'll make the money back with slave labor over the years.

When has that EVER not been everything Republicanism ( conservatism) is about? They spread propaganda about fiscal responsibility then run up the national debt to benefit their sugar daddies/mommies knowing that people who vote Republican are either A) complicit or B) clueless.

That could have paid for all the guillotines needed to rid the world of all the religious animals & their sects who have killed in the name of their religion.

I hear rumors that the ICE database is easy to obtain records from, FOIA and otherwise. Has anyone else heard about this? It would be great to know who they are hiring, right? Transparency as the admin. has promised? youtu.be/8MoRqnkroRw?...

Welfare is always cheaper than enforcement, everywhere its ever been tried. Media pearl clutching promotes the nazis, just for profits for elites, everywhere it gets its way, will we learn in time?

Awful people. May they rot in ____

extremely corrupt THIEVES

Why aren't they being put up in hotels with clean sheets and a place to eat AT THOSE RATES??? MOST ARE NOT CRIMINALS! MOST HAVE STILL NOT BEEN CHARGED!! Everything this 🍊🤡 does or says is BS!!

This isn't about proper care or adhering to state or federal inmate incarceration standards. It's about stealing as much money as possible from the taxpayers. Over $95 million has been spent so far

DESATAN has been building this place since January... Now the motherf*cker is working on additional gerrymandering. He and the state SCOTUS already eliminated a bunch of black and Hispanic districts. SO MUCH WHITE GUY EVIL!!!

The cruelty is the point

Most Americans make less than that and survive. Seems like maybe some money is not being used appropriately…

The most despicable administration ever !! So vile so corrupt

Guess what? They aren’t expecting the detainees to be there that long so the cost of a year is irrelevant. And if you aren’t feeding them or providing healthcare, its cheap. Sadly, they expect these people to be deported or dead long before that.

They are lying as usual.

The people held there used to be working hard, paying rent, buying groceries, paying taxes!

The billionaires don't get their cut from SNAP benefits.

Evil.

letting in added 50 mil undoc ppl who work for nothing over 20 years wrecks workers wages. enforcing immigration is a totally normal thing . every country does. in US progressives think they are entitled to a world where nothing bad happens. that just makes problems worse

You'd think for that much money, those detainees would at least be enjoying the same luxury as Ghislane Maxwell at Club Fed. Instead, they're trapped in cages and being fed maggots. Where is all that money going?

Same place it always goes. Into the hands of the Capitalist class. In this case, the Owners and Shareholders of those private Prisons.

Politicians' pockets...

Nazi pockets. This is only the start. Ya know they wrote all this down. They are going step by step page by page & the Demorats are acting like they've never heard of this before. Or they've been COMPROMISING our core values away to these scum for so long they're complacent with it.

Capitalist incentives leave no room for humanity.

They care about the private contracts.

because all the money spent on the prison goes to rich people not brown people.

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Oligarchs can’t grift SNAP as well as they can the private prison racket

"I just don't rape you because you don't deserve it." Bolsonaro, another friend of Trump, speaking to a woman congressman in Brazil.

Prison culture is an American made INDUSTRY. Privatizing encourages prisons to keep people in for no reason. Guess who got the most people in jail for minor infractions?! A single parking ticket can spiral into jail time! It's insane this is a thing. This country is twisted beyond repair.

Is Serco involved? They ran a similar system in the UK, using tax payers money, deliberately overcharging the Conservative government to house people in hotels. Unsurprisingly, a Tory MP had a relative in Serco. Thankfully, Conservatives were voted out in 2024, the UK uses paper votes not computers.

The difference: American Auschwitz is a for-profit prison. RepubliKKKans are funneling money into their own pockets. It costs 150,000 USD/detainee for ⑤ reasons: ① waste ② fraud ③ fraud ④ fraud ⑤ abuse (mental, physical, emotional)

Call to action: Reasonable people rise and protect themselves and others from treacherous individuals & groups who wreak demonstrable harm.

The felon pedophile trump should be there. Not the hard working immigrants.

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🗳️Vote All Republicans Out!🗳️

$150B for ICE is enough to ruin everything!

Privatization of prisons has really worked out well.

Trump’s mass deportation policy is costly, cruel and asinine, separating families and snatching contributing working people off the streets, who add $27B into the SS Fund yearly which they will never receive, and locking them up at a cost to taxpayers, while hurting growers & the hospitality sector.

🤬🤬🤬. All the maggats who created this abomination should be sent there .

What a wasteful and abusive government!!!

Sounds to me like we can afford to do housing and food assistance.

Yes, but #TacoPedo can't get any #kickbacks from SNAP like he can from those Concentration Camp CEO's. Trump is going to be getting a LOT of OUR tax money back from them.

No, we are saying the woman/man who makes $1500 in snap benefits, abuses the system, and has no interest in actually providing value to the rest of their society should be held accountable. There is a difference between working and not being able to make it, and blowing off work and milking SNAP

Don't give them ideas as to how to cut costs.

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How mighty white and pro life of them

PROPAGANDA ALL DAY EVERY DAY

Because it’s not about how much is being paid but rather who is being paid.

Trumps math never maths

Paying guards $6k per week is a huge red flag. Who audits alligator Alcatraz ?

WTF? There needs to be a special font size (huge) for every time we have to ask this question.

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Hey, mom! 😃

Americans must understand that this evil administration goal is just to profit as much a possible... The amount of money it is spending on mass deportation of immigrants could be used to legalize them instead, bust racism and hate are their moral values...!

Yeah but snap makes things better so we can't be fucking having that.

The Rich can’t launder money through SNAP

And they were paying taxes above what they got from SNAP 🙄

Republikkkan logic...

The $450 million was for the permit.

When it gets too expensive the death toll will rise further and war economy will start (see again the model of today’s US fascism Germany 1933)

Makes me sick. MAGA math is barely 2nd grade level. Logic? They have none. Their justification is exclusively about how much pain and death can they exert.

But science, medicine, education, the environment, FEMA, public television & radio, medicaid, other social programs, etcetera etcetera etcetera is a waste of American taxpayers hard earned money…. Right. FTD & his regime of corrupt SOBs!!!!!

Sorry, I forgot the VA cuts.

This is a clear-cut example of how privatization has been used by the billionaire class and their millionaire minions to override the public service needs of the people for excess profits.

no one will escape the consequences of their actions, including the impact on future generations and the effects of Karma, as well as any prison sentences.

I hope you are right. This business of redistricting outside of a census taking year is clearly unconstitutional. This business of going after the Democratic lawmakers from Texas is one step closer to declaring martial law. Which is just what Trump is attempting to do in the District of Columbia.

Doing cruel has no price tag

That’s an awful cost. Looks like no one cared. Normal prison cost are no where near the massive funds being passed out to ICE who doesn’t meet requirements. This is way to dump government money to support people who will fed money back to R-GOP candidates. Corruption!

Honestly gets me riled when any government does this sort of thing

It’s all just money laundering of our tax dollars

Money well-spent on political theatre.

Priorities?

They are lying about the cost and the amount of people there, no way any prison camp has more than 50 people.

And wouldn't it be so much cheaper, and sooo much better for the economy and our wellbeing if those people were allowed to go home and work and live in peace and contribute to our collective existence?

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First, the Military Industrial Complex, now, the Prison Industrial Complex

The Prison Industrial Complex has been an issue for some time. Private prisons should have never been a thing.

Correct. Now is flourishing.

No social services should be for profit: not healthcare, education, prisons, police, fire, etc. That is hugely the problem in the US, along with many other things.

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And some are trying to make it worse, and sadly succeeding. We have too many who believe if it exists then it MUST make a profit.

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They're literally building your concentration camps with ur tax $ right fn NOW! U should be panicking right about now.

That is the ideology that the US was built upon. That, stolen land and peoples to slave for free by colonizers who think white folks are the chosen ones.

Kids have so many choices now! They can make millions like the Kardashians, they can go explore the trails, become a model, when people stop making the babies we can find ways to entice them. Travel the world to Russia. To become a mail order bride and have your organs harvested to pay the bills.

FL criminal Sen Scott is the one who lead the effort to eliminate Medicaid after the 2026 mid terms. He is also the one who screwed the govt of $1.7 BILLION and then got away with it and was paid $1.3 million by his own company by retiring! Now he wants to eliminate Social Security..

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He should b e embarrassed but MAGAtards were never er born with a embarrassment gene...They are emotionless animals!

If MAGA don't watch out another dream of theirs will come true. They don't want any Social Security like they don;'t want a decent living wage. They like $7.25 hr they earn because why else would they continuously vote for MAGA who will not give them a raise since 2009?

There is one thing that keeps them going, bigotry.

They don't think they are bigots, but they were taught that by their bigoted wannabe parents.. in reality they are the worst bigots which lead them to no human emotions...the fat orange shit taught them they don't need them..., then they gave him their emotions, and will never get them back.

Didn't help that the nazi techbro reaffirmed that by claiming empathy is a weakness.

For-profit prisons are the problem.

I saw recently that a private prison company was telling trump to get more inmates to them or they were gonna close. Only in america can a prison closing be a bad thing.

With private prisons, the profit motive means that it's more profitable to make sure they are so massively abused that they will absolutely reoffend the moment they get out.

Particularly if you are a sex offender.

Mhm, while in other countries they actually focus on rehabilitation and hoping prisoners don't need to come back.

Excellent call!!

Helping people is expensive. Harming people is priceless.

This is it, repugs care more about punishing the people they hate than helping anyone at all.

And all punishment is proof of abuse of the punisher Everyone that wants to or agrees with punishing us an UNHEALED abused child Making them unfit to lead anyone without extensive therapy

Shit the rank and file will punish THEMSELVES before they give any ground to non white or non straight people

ˆˆThe GoP is NOT the party of fiscal responsibility. The math makes the opposite of sense. It's straight up cruelty. Small-minded fragile white men (and sadly many women) - i.e. the core of MAGA - want to feel superior and there is no price too high for this. Plus, it's not their money.

Yeah, but now the $2256 doesn’t go to people that need it and the $150,000 is going to people who don’t need it. Cruelty is the point.

We can’t feed children or fund school programs but we’ve got plenty of money for this!

Nazi like

If DeSantis is involved, the money never makes sense. He’s gotta get HIS cut, right?! Don’t believe me? Look up the “fundraiser” they started for Hurricane Ian victims in 22’, and then look up DeSatan’s failed “world tour” for when he was campaigning for POTUS. Funny thing…no one in FL…

…seemed to receive anything from those funds, but he went on a huge world tour (for his failed candidacy for POTUS) with his family, and it seemed to be completely paid for. Hmmm. 🤔 If he’s involved, expect corruption and thievery. We bitch in FL, but he’s gotta the state locked up with YES MEN.

I have a feeling that Trump and Co are skimming a lot of money off the top at the Alligator Alcatraz. Why else would a tent city cost so much? Why else build it in Florida, a state that always has a stink of corruption in politics from the Senator to the Governors wife.

Consult DOGE!!

This! 💯

That's what my mom would call fraud and imbenitration. Imbezzelment. Imprisonment is a quantity of 4x the acquisition on terms of employment or dismemberment.

I wonder how long the average stay is before they put them on a plane to some random country?

Follow the $.

Its actually $40,000 per person. They will pocket the other $110,000 for Pedofelon 47

If it made somebody's life better, it would be too expensive. If it dehumanises someone then cost is no object.

More grifting.

Robbing Peter to put Paul in an expensive and inhumane concentration camp. Doesn't exactly roll of the tongue.

Hey. Get used to it. I think Trump failed math. If you make too much of a fuss, they may ban teaching math in school on account that it's insurrectionist.

From what I am told, some people getting SNAP get far less, as in $5.16 a day.

LYING AGAIN........... TYPICAL of the "trumpy dumpy NAZI REGIME" et al

You mean they lied to us? Who would have thought?👽

Meanwhile Florida has over 2 million SNAP recipients who are getting their benefits cut in order pay for 3,000 tax paying migrants imprisoned in a concentration camp… because self hating Stephen Miller has fantasies of being the modern Goebbles

The man can't call himself a Christian. He's the Devil's disciple...

Could it be the prisoner doesn't really cost that much? That it is a lie and instead they are pocketing the extra cash???

On this alone, SHUT IT DOWN!

Source please?

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This is 2025, I’ve been complaining about this since at least 2004. Welcome to the bandwagon I have room for you in the back.

This administration’s math calculations have a lot to be desired. They are all wrong!

...and this is where the media needs to confront Trump HEAD-ON and point out these FACTS! WORD FOR WORD! IN A PUBLIC SETTING! Not that he'd care, but someone needs to stop him, Noem, Vance, Miller, Johnson, etc. - and it needs to be done now.

"But if I did my job, Trump will sue my parent company and ban me from the WH pool, and we need his access for rating and social media metrics."

Simple: the $150K/person per year goes to a friendly contractor. You NEVER want $2256/year to go to actual people in need. Icky!

Well looks like some private corp is getting very rich.

magats think math is short for Matthew

The difference is that the friends of the regime get the money and build their wealth. The $2200 is for people who they treat as peasants and slaves to these folks. America is a declining country with no democracy, no freedom and NO Heart! Never will see a great country falls into decay.

They could have paid tuition for all of them to go to the University of California, paid them a stipend, and bought them medical insurance.

I'm homeless & disabled from medical bills. My vote is for universal healthcare now. I'm tired of helping disabled vets out here while y'all walk right over em.

Underrated comment. This is the comparison. They could also have bought them all a house somewhere cheap too. Their work, consumption and taxes from it could have grown the economy. Who benefits here? ☹️

Last I checked slave labor is still legal if you're in prison. So... just do the math and you'll see who benefits

Each person is not going to be kept there for a year are they? I thought it was temporary.

Lord knows.

Private prison companies mainly.

CORE has been sued in several other states for non-compliance. At one point in AZ they were using the same hypodermic needle on multiple inmates. This is not care it's a Nazi extermination machine.

It feels like encouragement to the poor to go to prison and live well

Maybe sit down and rest a minute, Randy, and have a glass of water. If the feeling or the foggy-headedness persists, call your doctor.

Thank you Elijah…. God bless you

A form of government which requires forced/coerced compliance, aka fascism, aka you are legally allowed to speak up against it. (Temporary)

The Colorado Medical Board believes I need medication shoved down my throat because I was crazy and put “no taxation w/o representation” on the back of my car. I hope HCA HealthOne started in Florida with one dude. For profit. I worked at CBCI they were raking it in for some hela cells.

Yes let’s reward them all for coming into this country illegally. That wouldn’t be a slap in the face to every natural citizen or legal immigrant.

Perhaps you've misconstrued what is being said here, my friend. No one here advocated that.

Yes. But also, as a naturalized citizen myself, I'd rather they got housing or education than be put in jail. It's a no brainer. Could the money be used in other ways? Sure. But the way they are using it currently is the worst.

So again you’d rather reward people for breaking the law, encouraging more people to try and come here and take advantage. But I wouldn’t keep them here either in jail, plane tickets to Mexico are much cheaper.

Alas, my point has been lost on many readers.

I’m pretty sure I got it. You are saying alligator Alcatraz is a waste of money. I agree we should just send them in a plane back over the border they now can’t breach. What am I missing?

Among other things (like empathy), understanding due process rights, that a bunch of these folks are legally in US. For those who aren't: the fact that big sectors of the US economy are dependent on this labor - good luck with those food prices. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Indeed Trump’s USA prefers Spend Billions on Defense & Prison Vs Education & Healthcare It is a matter of choice And choice is in the hands of of Americans for Mid Terms

What don't u comprehend about the rich getting richer & the poor getting poorer. F Israel in every way possible too.

This is an obscenity. Marjorie Stoneman Douglas (author of River of Grass) who spent almost her entire life trying to save the Everglades from man is rolling over in her grave.

Thank, Autopen Biden.

@MSNBC

Sickening.

SO IRRITATING!!

Never forget that they aren’t keeping those same people there year after year. They will ship them off to foreign torture holes or labor camps as quickly as they can churn them through so the next batch can be brought in.

All depends on the person. I get a whopping $14 a month in ebt.

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How much are we paying private contractors involved with the holding facilities? How many of them are connected to repubs?

The MAGA Supreme Court sanctions Trump’s illegality and all this corruption. Trump is stealing all our taxpayer dollars to pay these corrupt contractors. Trump fires low paid government employees to pay these contractors more than 10 times more money which is WASTEFUL SPENDING. WTF.

The prison industry is a continuation of free labor/slavery for the elite capitalist class. Oligarchs needs free labor /exploitation of workers to remain on top.

Why would you expect anything other than SCAM anywhere a Cult is involved?

There is always an unlimited amount of money for performative cruelty.

Hello from Australia. Looks like some are making a huge profit by violating human rights and even worse, doing it taxpayers expense. It's revolting that our money is spent on this instead of helping the less fortunate.

They lied