Maybe we can house all the illegals on the ships.
Maybe we can claim them. They gotta be worth something even scrap.
We pay off the sailors and send them home. Couldn’t cost that much. Then load the ship up with illegals of a given country, Columbia say, and then have a skeleton Navy crew man the ship and have a second Navy ship escort it to Columbian waters. Drop anchor, Navy crew disembarks to the destroyer and sails away. Leave them with a 30 day supply of food and water and tell Columbia to come and get their people.