[fella]

“Huh? $1500 a person per month? How does it cost that much?”

Maybe it would be cheaper to put them on cruise ships headed south. The longer it takes for their hearing the futher south they get. Or head them for them for the EU.

[BeauBo]

"Maybe it would be cheaper to put them on cruise ships headed south."

That is actually a feasible plan, One leased cruise ship could do a weekly milk run from Corpus Christi to Southern Mexico (Cancun), Guatemala, and Honduras; carrying 2,000 deportees, for a few hundred dollars a piece. El Salvadoreans would have to bused from Hond, or flown.

During Operation Wetback under President Eisenhower, the military leased commercial ships and did that.