The problem is where to keep people who cross the border illegally until they're returned?
Letting them all go is wrong. The worse will soon disappear, those with zero chance of being allowed to stay will disappear. So locking them up is the only solution and unless the border is strengthened in places where people have access to walk across. The only option.
What will Americans pay to support better facilities? None of the people complaining about the facilities wants to talk about how much more should be spent to keep them in a secure location.
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ICE facilities cost $133.99 a day per adult
According to ICE’s FY 2018 budget, on average it costs $133.99 a day to maintain one adult detention bed. But immigration groups have pegged the number closer to $200 a day.
The cost to maintain a family bed, which keeps mothers and children together in a family residential center, costs around $319 a day, according to DHS.
But as of April, children have been separated from their parents with much higher frequency, which has led to the creation of “tent cities” to hold thousands of separated children. Those beds cost $775 per person per night, HHS told NBC News.
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Are you ready to pay $8,104,000 a day to keep the detainees in better secure accommodation? Multiply that by the average time of a detention to get the final figure.