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MandatoryDissent55 t1_j4r3pz9 wrote

Anybody want to go on Zillow and look up apartments that cost $9,100/mo and tell me why the fuck our taxes should be paying for that?

That's a high-end two bedroom apartment in Midtown, for each person... Who isn't even supposed to be here.

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thebusiness7 t1_j4slini wrote

The US could have used the money to set up “safe zones” in industrial zones within Mexico (and LatAm) to ensure worker safety and the people would have stayed there instead of coming north. They mainly come for safety / to work.

Before people start saying “but it’s their problem”, the US has a horrible track record of destroying and destabilizing their nations: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor , along with the C I A nurturing the cartels in the 1980s onward to create a supply chain so they could profit: https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/9712/ch01p1.htm

At this stage it’s evident there’s a corrupt faction at the top (intel agencies with no oversight) of people who DON’T work for the public, yet take public tax dollars, and the public still has to foot the bill for the shit resulting from the destabilization of other countries.

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phoenixmatrix t1_j4rds8y wrote

I'm not defending the decision by any mean, but that would be apple and orange, assuming they're also feeding those people, maintaining the place, dealing with edge cases where folks will be wrecking it up, security, etc. If they could just rent a bunch of market place apartments and dump them in there they'd do that.

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MeatballMadness t1_j4se24e wrote

Ok, let's assume $7500. That still gets you a high-end two bedroom and gives you $1600 for groceries and other expenses.

Either way it's robbery.

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