Almost as deep as the list of people who were on the MTA payroll for this project until an auditor came in and could not find any reason why they were being paid

Edit: It was around 22% of the payroll in 2017. Hundreds of people being paid $30,000 a month for no identifiable reason. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-construction-costs.html

"Nobody knew what those people were doing, if they were doing anything," said Michael Horodniceanu, who was then the head of construction at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Reminds me of the years of delays in opening the 34th St-Hudson Yards station because they kept ordering the wrong parts for an elevator, or something like that

There's a very straightforward process to change the venue of your immigration case. But most likely if they are being bused here directly after crossing the border, they would put New York as their place of residence before ever being assigned to an immigration judge in the first place