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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oddly, I read this entire thread.  I'm curious about the cost to our country in taxpayer dollars.  I'm not even discussing the costs of educating the migrant kids or the health costs of treating the migrant children and their families.

I believe I am a moderate to liberal person.  However, this immigration policy is unsustainable . Just look at some of the early costs for our cities and states:

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) – $16.464 billion is provided in base discretionary funding for CBP, as well as $1.563 billion to address increased encounters at the Southwest Border. In total, $7.153 billion is provided for the U.S. Border Patrol for operations, hiring, and Southwest Border surge requirements, which is a 17 percent increase above FY22.

Texas has already spent $4.4 billion (of non-federal, Texas taxpayer dollars} just on boarder security measures.

So far, (in DC) the city’s new Office of Migrant Services has spent more than $15.1 million on hotel lodging, food and other services, according to the Department of Human Services (DHS), which oversees the agency.
The expenses are projected to climb to $52.5 million by October amid expectations of another surge, DHS said, undermining the city’s efforts to close an estimated $1.7 billion budget gap.

he Chicago City Council voted 34-13 Wednesday to spend $51 million from the city’s 2021 budget surplus to help care for migrants sent to Chicago from Texas after tension between Black and Latino Chicagoans boiled over, resulting in an intense debate that featured racist abuse.

In all, city officials expect to spend $112 million through the end of June from a combination of state, federal and local funds to feed and shelter the migrants, who are seeking asylum in the United States after fleeing poverty and violence in Central and South America.

New York City is spending about $8 million a day to house the 37,500 asylum seekers currently in shelters, a burden that is straining the budget and overwhelming city agencies, officials said Monday.

This is nonsense.  These dollars should be spent helping out our own homeless population and those in need.  . [/quote]

It's nice to hear a voice of reason from the left.  This has become so infrequent in recent years.  
I agree.  Unsustainable is one way to describe the crisis.  [/quote]

Please.  Republicans just like to kick homeless people off to blue states.  They wouldn't spend a dime of that money on the homeless.[/quote]

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