WTF: Private companies are making billions from detaining immigrant $775 per child per day

A new report from NBC News has detailed the enormous cost of housing the children and families being detained at the border. Are you sitting down? Because a for-profit, private company is billing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services a whopping $775 per child, per day to hold them in one of the “tent cities” on the Trump administration’s orders.

Professor W. Warren Binford, a law professor who is an “internationally recognized children's rights scholar and advocate” and founder of the Willamette's Child and Family Advocacy Clinic, visited a Border Patrol detention facility in Clint, Texas, and she told PBS and several other media outlets about the squalid conditions these children are living in—sleeping on concrete floors, children taking care of toddlers, flu outbreak, diapers being reused or no diapers at all. Separated from their loved ones at the border as they turned themselves in to seek asylum and legal entry into the United States. This is a crisis entirely manufactured by the Trump administration as Professor Binford notes that nearly every child she interviewed had a family member in the United States willing to take them in and care for them...

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If you can stomach the Leftist narrative spin and look at the numbers its quite staggering.