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Taxpayers Stuck with Bill of $392.69 per Person per Night on Hotels for Illegals Crossing Border
Gateway Pundit ^ | March 26, 2021 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 03/26/2021 12:13:54 PM PDT by grundle

This is infuriating.

Joe Biden and the Democrat majority government are spending $72,000 per person to house illegal aliens and fake refugees in hotels in Texas and Arizona.

The average median household income in America in 2019 was $65,712 per household. And that was before the, before the Fauci lockdowns in 2020.

Via Breitbart.com:

Biden’s Plan to House Illegal Immigrants in Hotels to Cost Taxpayers $72,000 per Border-Crosser: Report

President Joe Biden’s plan to house migrants in United States hotels is set to cost American taxpayers about $72,000 per border crosser awarded a room, analysis details.

This week, the Biden administration announced it awarded a Texas-based nonprofit an $86 million contract to pay for hotel rooms in the U.S. for border crossers. The contract is for six months and will provide rooms to about 1,200 migrant families.

Analysis by former federal immigration judge Andrew Arthur, a fellow with the Center for Immigration Studies, finds the cost to taxpayers is expensive.

Arthur writes at CIS.org:

On March 20, Axios reported that the Biden administration has entered into a six-month contract worth $86 million to house 1,200 migrant family members near the Southwest border in Texas and Arizona. That works out to $71,666.67 per migrant, paid by your tax dollars, meaning that you are now a co-conspirator to one of the largest smuggling schemes in history.

Keep in mind, as the outlet notes, that $86 million is just the beginning, as the contract (“through Endeavors, a Texas-based nonprofit” — I would hate to see the tab if they were in it for the money) “could be extended and expanded”.

Why does the Biden administration need $86 million in hotel space? ICE, which detains adults and adults traveling with children (family units or FMUs), is already using its family residential centers (FRCs) as “rapid-processing centers with the goal of releasing families within 72 hours”. But apparently even with that short turn-around time, the agency is running out of space.

By the way, $71,666.67 divided by six months equals $392.69 per person per night. One night at the AAA-rated three diamond Best Western Plus Laredo Inn & Suites for two adults and two children is $127.49 per night ($111 for AAA members), and includes a free breakfast, refrigerator, and microwave.


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1 posted on 03/26/2021 12:13:54 PM PDT by grundle
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Money laundering.


2 posted on 03/26/2021 12:15:51 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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Taxpayers will pay for the destruction and damages at these hotels also..


3 posted on 03/26/2021 12:17:01 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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The median income in the USA is $31K.
The Federales are spending over twice the median income of American citizens to provide each invader with food, shelter, services, money, etc.


4 posted on 03/26/2021 12:18:12 PM PDT by Little Ray (The Government is always its own largest and most important Special Interest. .)
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To: grundle

If I remember correctly, I think it’s cheaper to stay at the Biltmore.


5 posted on 03/26/2021 12:19:46 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I voted for prosperity, and I got poverty.)
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To: grundle

This is why America needs that wall completed.


6 posted on 03/26/2021 12:23:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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7 posted on 03/26/2021 12:24:49 PM PDT by yoe
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$86 million to house 1,200 migrant family members

Elsewhere I saw it was for 1,200 families, so that would be about $20 per person < /s>.

So which is it, 1,200 people or 1,200 families? I saw both when I searched but didn't find anything that looked official.

8 posted on 03/26/2021 12:27:35 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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That’s hundreds of dollars more than the military reimburse service members who move to another duty station.

Makes sense.


9 posted on 03/26/2021 12:27:39 PM PDT by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Shut the deuce up!!! I'll do the fighting!!!)
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I think the maximum I ever paid for a hotel room was $120 per night. That was because the company I worked for booked me into a hotel that was near the conference hotel, but that hotel went beyond what I was allotted. Personally, I believe I never paid more than $90 per night and that was more-or-less an emergency. (Note, I haven’t traveled since 2012.)

So, yeah, I am really, really using up some urine here.


10 posted on 03/26/2021 12:27:52 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Col Frank Slade

True, because these “wonderful, hardworking, family values” people are destructive pigs. Just look at any neighborhood they have taken over, as well as the places where they crossed the border.


11 posted on 03/26/2021 12:29:11 PM PDT by Nea Wood (Satan was the first liberal.)
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If it’s for 1200 families, it is still $72,000 for a half year, which is a bit more than what average American family makes and a lot more than what was spent on National Guard troops in D.C. protecting against ‘insurrection’.


12 posted on 03/26/2021 12:38:30 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: grundle

Leftists xare more about foreign criminals than their own citizens


13 posted on 03/26/2021 12:48:15 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (Count Rostov "The tyranny of indistinguishable days.")
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14 posted on 03/26/2021 12:53:55 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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While the NG occupying Fort Pelosi bunk in parking garages.

There are no words...


15 posted on 03/26/2021 1:07:19 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: grundle

What, they couldn’t stay at Motel 6???


16 posted on 03/26/2021 1:16:23 PM PDT by Iscool
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And they still may be losing money having to deal with the bed bugs that are sure to be found.


17 posted on 03/26/2021 1:18:50 PM PDT by RideForever (Know Islam, No Peace; Know Peace, No Islam ...)
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To: grundle

And I never even got a matching set of bath towels.


18 posted on 03/26/2021 2:20:10 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: blueunicorn6

No kidding. Which fat cat democrat donor owns the hotels these lice are staying in? Pritzkers? Marriott?


19 posted on 03/26/2021 2:23:42 PM PDT by vis a vis
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To: grundle

I can’t express the loathing I feel for the Republicans and SCOTUS justices who stabbed President Trump and us in the back.


20 posted on 03/26/2021 2:28:05 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Still praying for our country and President Trump)
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