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The $250 a day figure compares with the $667 one-way cost of an airline ticket from McAllen, Texas, to Guatemala City, Guatemala, according to both Orbitz and Priceline. The combined airfare for 29,358 passengers would be $19.6 million. That is one-half of 1 percent of President Obama’s overall $3.8 billion request. Volume discounts and government rates would yield even lower fares. But even without discounts, sending everyone home right away saves taxpayers 99.5 percent!
It’s also closer to fly them from McAllen to Guatemala City than to Murietta, California. Only 1,297 miles compared to 1,549 miles. And no protesters.
But what about the red-tape processing that Obama says gets in ther way? We know the president skirts inconvenient laws when he wants to do so. And although there is some red tape for the minors, there is no federal law that requires officials to drag their feet on deporting the thousands of adults newly arrived from Central America. And no red tape on the accompanied minors. All of them can be placed on planes pronto, arriving home far more quickly than it took them to journey to Texas. And arriving there more quickly than flying to California.
Regarding the unaccompanied juveniles, officials such as Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson don’t seem to have read the law. Johnson told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the top priority is “doing right by the children.” Actually, the law states the top priority is to repatriate those children to their country of origin.
originally posted by: neo96
a reply to: xuenchen
What I am trying to figure out ?
Is if those shoes were made in an American illegal sweat shops.
Or shipped there from slave labor in China.
originally posted by: xuenchen
originally posted by: neo96
a reply to: xuenchen
What I am trying to figure out ?
Is if those shoes were made in an American illegal sweat shops.
Or shipped there from slave labor in China.
I would bet the shoes are from Mexico.
And I bet they were "issued" somewhere close to the border.
Just look at the good condition.
[ researching china shoe imports/exports ]
On CNN’s Legal View today, host Ashleigh Banfield went into a full rant today over people protesting the buses of illegal immigrants arriving in California over the last week.
Banfield was speaking with the spokesperson for a group offering pro bono legal services to the hundreds of children from Central America seeking to enter the United States. After wrapping the interview, Banfield has words for people who are protesting how the government is handling the situation.