As even The Guardian admitted during Australia’s border crisis, illegally smuggling fake “refugees” to Australia was a huge money-spinner for criminal gangs. It’s not a bad earner for their clients, either. The overwhelming majority of “asylum seekers” have remained on welfare for years, while also enjoying free healthcare, free education and subsidised housing. At the same time, millions of dollars of Australian taxpayers’ money was being sent back to their countries of origin.
American taxpayers might know how we feel. Of the $3 trillion Democrat “stimulus” bill, just one-sixth was paid as stimulus cheques to Americans. Of that, more than $4 billion will be paid to illegal immigrants. And, at the same time that thousands of National Guardsmen are forced to sleep in garages in Washington, the Democrats are spending nearly $90 million to put illegals up in hotels.
But it’s the people-smugglers – Mexican cartels – who are really raking in the cash from the re-opened southern border.
Traffickers bringing men, women and children across the U.S.-Mexico border made as much as $14 million a day in February, according to a new report published Monday.
“Trafficking is a multibillion-dollar industry,” former Tucson Border Patrol Chief Roy Villareal told Fox News.
Still, at least Democrats are getting their slaves back.
“Some are essentially indentured servants and they’re working off this debt for a long period of time. In other cases, some of these migrants are asked to transport narcotics or some form of crime to work off a different part of their debt,” said Villareal, who recently retired after 30 years with the agency.
The financial scale of the Democrats’ open borders lunacy is truly eye-watering.
According to smuggling fee revenues estimated by the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), traffickers made $411.5 million in February ferrying people from Mexico and Central American countries to the U.S. border — or $14.7 million for each day in February.
The report comes as costs of the border crisis are rising for the federal government. The cost to U.S. taxpayers now tops $5 million a day, based on 2019 figures provided by Health and Human Services that put daily “influx” shelter costs at $800 per illegal alien, Fox reported.
“Additional costs will include overtime and hotel costs for the hundreds of agents reassigned to Texas from other areas. For context, in 2019 Congress appropriated an extra $4.6 billion to handle a similar migrant surge. In 2014, Congress gave President Obama an extra $2.7 billion to deal with his border crisis,” Fox wrote.
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden’s administration on Sunday awarded the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency $86.9 million to house illegal aliens in hotels near the U.S.-Mexico border.
“The contract, through Texas-based nonprofit Endeavors, provides 1,239 beds and ‘other necessary services.’ The families will receive a comprehensive health assessment, including COVID-19 testing[…]
Endeavors’ services will also include “therapeutic regiments, educational resources and mental health care,” Fox reported.Endeavors also offers culturally appropriate, trauma-informed, child-centered case management, home study, and post-release services for unaccompanied children and their sponsors.”
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US veterans living in cardboard boxes under bridges, or suffering in squalid VA hospitals might start to wonder whether it was worth shedding blood for their country.
They’d be better off taking a trip to Tijuana and sneaking back across the Rio Grande. Then their Democrat government might finally be bothered with them.
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