Summary
The U.S. military’s deportation flight to Guatemala, ordered by Trump, cost approximately $4,675 per migrant—over five times the price of a first-class commercial ticket.
The C-17 military aircraft operation is significantly more expensive than ICE’s commercial charter flights, which cost around $630 per person.
Trump defended the policy, vowing to continue deportations and warning countries that refuse cooperation.
The program, part of Trump’s national emergency declaration, has already deported hundreds, though some countries, like Colombia, have resisted.
Which is exactly why they are going to stop doing it and either use immigrants as slave labor or just concentrate them at Gitmo until they decide that a Final Solution to the Immigrant Question is the most cost-effective strategy.
Hmm… sounds familiar.
He’s already planning that
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/g-s1-45454/trump-says-u-s-will-send-worst-criminal-illegal-aliens-to-guantanamo-bay
Sadly, I am aware. That’s why I sad the Gitmo thing. But they won’t be able to keep them there forever and they will not spend this kind of money deporting them all, so there are really only two choices they will make since letting them go isn’t something they’re willing to consider: slave labor or death.
They would have to fly, or ship them to Gitmo too. I can’t imagine that being any cheaper.
Oh they can always slow boat them too.
Isn’t gitmo an incredibly small prison anyway?
There’s got to be millions of undocumented people, they’ll never fit in a little peninsula…
How can people not see where things are going
The announced plan is to build new facility with a capacity for 30,000, on the other side of the Guantanamo Bay from the existing prison.
Assume that they can see where things are going, and that enough of them are okay with that.
That’s what we should be reacting to.
Not if they don’t plan on keeping them alive. Which was what I was suggesting.