It costs nearly $800 per day per child in these “emergency” tent cities. Compared to the nearly $300 per day at the over capacity permanent facilities.
It is estimated that 400 children cost 5 million per month.
Previously the children would be farmed out to foster homes or relatives. That process could take up to 3 months.
Now there is a bottleneck because people are afraid to foster, family or not, because vetting often leads to arrests of illegal relatives in the fostering family.
Now we are going to hold every immigrant in the tent cities. No more releasing with gps ankle bracelets to wait 3 years for a court date.
I don’t even want to do the math on cost.