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Americans Billed $27M to Fund ‘Reintegration’ Gift Bags for Deported Central Americans
Breitbart ^ | 7 Dec 2018 | john Binder

Posted on 12/07/2018 12:18:19 PM PST by detective

Since 2014, American taxpayers have been billed nearly $30 million to fund school supplies, toys, clothing, and coloring books for migrants returning to Central America after being deported from the United States.

A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report reveals that USAID has spent $27 million worth of U.S. taxpayer money, since 2014, on departing gift bags for migrants deported from the U.S. back to Central America.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: deported; illegals
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Every year, the U.S. admits more than 1.5 foreign nationals, with the vast majority deriving from family-based chain migration. In 2016, the legal and illegal immigrant population reached a record high of 44 million. By 2023, the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the legal and illegal immigrant population of the U.S. will make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S. population.

Pictures at the link.

1 posted on 12/07/2018 12:18:19 PM PST by detective
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To: detective

What?!?!

Blacks ain’t got reparations yet, and those Mexicans are getting millions?


2 posted on 12/07/2018 12:21:47 PM PST by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: detective; raygunfan; Gamecock; Larry Lucido; KC_Lion; FredZarguna; PROCON
What, no one could re-gift "Boggle"? That boggles the mind...


3 posted on 12/07/2018 12:22:09 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: detective

So, is that like a half a mile of wall?


4 posted on 12/07/2018 12:22:11 PM PST by rktman ( #My2nd! Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH)
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To: detective

Gift bags to go home...that sounds OK to me.


5 posted on 12/07/2018 12:23:46 PM PST by Maris Crane
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To: detective

Even in being deported - the US Taxpayers get shafted!


6 posted on 12/07/2018 12:24:01 PM PST by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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To: polymuser

Hondurans and Guatemalans...


7 posted on 12/07/2018 12:24:34 PM PST by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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To: detective; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; campaignPete R-CT; Clemenza; AuH2ORepublican; dp0622; NFHale; ...

Departing gift bags ?! WTF ?! America is now a game show ?


8 posted on 12/07/2018 12:24:46 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: detective

Go to any federal agency and ask them for toys for your kids.

See what happens.


9 posted on 12/07/2018 12:25:21 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: detective

If we can build the wall and speed up the removals, I’d be happy to pay for gift bags.


10 posted on 12/07/2018 12:27:06 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: detective

You could have a lot of homeless American vets for 27 million dollars


11 posted on 12/07/2018 12:29:59 PM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: detective

Translated into Spanish:

I TRIED TO ILLEGALLY IMMIGRATE TO THE U.S. AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS GOODY BAG.”


12 posted on 12/07/2018 12:34:40 PM PST by kaehurowing
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they should be sent home with no gift but condoms , to encourage them to control their impoverished populations a bit . STOP BREEDING so much .


13 posted on 12/07/2018 12:39:42 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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How about, “I got deported and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.”


14 posted on 12/07/2018 12:41:23 PM PST by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Their fertility is one of the things Yeb! admires so much about them.

And their short stature, they all have to look up to him.....


15 posted on 12/07/2018 12:41:40 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: detective

This is, in the most literal sense, quite stupid.


16 posted on 12/07/2018 12:43:49 PM PST by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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But did they get to take the teddy bears and soccer balls that Glenn Beck awarded them for sneaking into the US?


17 posted on 12/07/2018 12:54:26 PM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: detective

How many miles of wall is that?


18 posted on 12/07/2018 12:57:17 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: detective

Compared to the BILLIONS they cost US while they are here I’m ok with this!


19 posted on 12/07/2018 1:00:10 PM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: detective

Stock the gift bags like C-Rats with little packs of cigarettes.


20 posted on 12/07/2018 1:10:40 PM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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