Boy, the drumpf admin is just full of geniuses, they are managing to squander taxpayer dollars by insisting on extracting the maximum amount of pain from immigrants who’ve had their children taken from them.
“Monday's lash-out comes to us through a report in The New York Times detailing how sponsors of unaccompanied migrant children—some of whom were torn away from their parents when they arrived at our border due to Trump's "zero-tolerance" policy—are often forced to pay exorbitant fees to get them out of detention facilities and into a home. (snip)
...A shelter in South Texas asked a Salvadoran woman for $4,000 to fly her niece, 12, and nephew, 10, with an escort to California. They were there a month, until she convinced them that she could not pay, said Fred Morris, president of the San Fernando Valley Refugee Children Center, a nonprofit that helped her locate the children. The siblings arrived in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Considering 78 percent of Americans report they live paycheck-to-paycheck, and 57 percent say they have less than $1,000 in their bank accounts, these kinds of fees to get a child back with their family would be a challenge for basically anyone. This has been the policy of the Office of Refugee Resettlement for some time, though the Obama administration waived the requirement during a surge in migration in 2016 that left shelters overwhelmed. Shelters are once again overwhelmed, thanks in large part to Trump's since-abandoned family-separation policy, but the government is still demanding the fees. (snip)
Each day that a child remains in a facility costs the government upwards of $600 a day, and costs can rise to as much as $1,000 daily if a provider has to absorb new children on short notice, Mr. Carey said.
So we're spending more money to keep these kids in detention facilities, with strangers, than we'd spend to reunite them with family. This closely resembles the family separation policy itself, which has led to children being kept in so-called "tent cities" on the southern border—in the stifling heat of South Texas summer—at greater expense than if they'd been kept with their parents or in more permanent facilities. As a reminder, many of these people are seeking asylum, a human right codified under international law and treaties to which the United States is a signatory.”
So, not only are they stealing children, they are losing big chunks of taxpayer money money to keep them from their parents.
Stupider and stupider....