Who said crime doesn’t pay?
According to a story in the Houston Chronicle (via Benders’ Immigration Daily),
The government pulls people suspected of being here illegally out of airplane lines and then pays to detain, prosecute and deport them to the country they were headed to in the first place.
In other words, if you’re in the U.S. illegally, and paying your own way out of the country, the government will detain you for up to four months (at an average $66.96 a day, excluding court costs, United States Marshals and the eventual ticket back to wherever you were headed in the first place).
It doesn’t make a lick of sense, til you realize that immigrant detention facilities are big business. There’s a “special interest” in keeping people in custody, even when there is no obvious need to do so. Even if you are a stockholder in Geo Group or Corrections Corporation of America you are paying for this through your taxes. But, apparently, “Homeland Security” has never been about securing our homes… but about securing taxpayer subsidies for dubious business enterprises.
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