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[–] cadekat@pawb.social 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

... That's like $100,000 a person. Not to mention transportation costs, costs to house them while in custody, cost to apprehend them.

Makes absolutely no sense. Spend $100k on anyone, and you can make them into a valuable, productive member of society (assuming they weren't already).

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's all about the racism and xenophobia. These fuck faces think their genes are somehow magical and special while representing the Temu of humanity

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

the Temu of humanity

I'm stealing this one.

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

The fuckwits that support maga would gladly spend 5x that to hurt someone, but would absolutely lose their fucking minds if the base amount, 5x less, was "given" to them to help.

Yeah, but that's taxes money, public funds, whilst the little bonuses they get for it go straight into their pockets!

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 15 points 4 months ago

Palau's like,"They aren't criminals? They're just hard-working immigrants, huh? And you want to give us 7.5 million? What's the catch?"

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

$100k per person. And what's 75 people considering the masses ICE goons are rounding up. Must be this "government efficiency". If the situation was less fucked up alround, this alone would create an outrage, mostly from those very same far-right knuckleheads.

Un-fucking-believable. Thank you Snopes, thank you OP.

[–] noumenon@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

You’re welcome

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

As a scuba diver, being deported to Palau might be the start of a life that I didn't know I wanted.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

For a moment, I thought the Just Cause 2 island was real

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 1 points 4 months ago

Up to 75? Why even bother?