Judicial Watch: Feds Paid Group $76,000 Per Ilegal Alien Child During Summer Surge

12/3/2014

We saw this happening at the time. The Obama Economic Clusterfark continues…

Via Daily Caller.

The Obama administration paid a Texas-based group more than $182 million to provide shelter services for illegal immigrant children at two military facilities for four months this summer.

The Department of Health and Human Services paid the group, BCFS, nearly $76,000 per child to provide shelter at two 1,200-bed facilities maintained at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio and Fort Sill Army Base in Oklahoma, according to the government watchdog group Judicial Watch, which received documents laying out the expenses through a Freedom of Information Act request.

An estimated 90,000 UACs entered the U.S. this year, mostly from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

Federal law requires that — rather than immediate deportation — minors from countries that do not border the U.S. be turned over to the federal health department while they work through the immigration court system.

Expenses for the 1,200-bed Fort Sill facility totaled $104,215,608. Another $77,914,178 was spent to maintain the 1,200-bed Lackland Air Force Base unit.

That works out to $86,846 that American taxpayers paid per bed at the Fort Sill facility, which operated between June 12 and Oct. 18.

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