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Catherine Verber's avatar

How much is the US paying to send people to El Salvador? That is a fact that needs to be shared CONSTANTLY.

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Linda's avatar

I read $6M and, in another written source, $15M. These recent immigrants were flown in C-17 military cargo planes which cost approx $28,500 per hour to fly. It takes approx 10-13 hours to fly to El Salvador from the US (do not know the departure airport), twice as long as a commercial plane. This info was in El Paso Times quoting Reuters.

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Paul Schwartz's avatar

General aid - Nearly $6.6 million in assistance, including $2 million in International Disaster Assistance (IDA) humanitarian assistance for risk communication, water, sanitation, and hygiene; $2 million in Economic Support Funds (ESF) to address the second-order impacts of the pandemic in El Salvador through creating jobs and increasing access to credit, both critical factors in driving illegal immigration to the United States; and nearly $2.6 million in health assistance to address the pandemic.

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Ellen McKenzie's avatar

OMG. ItтАЩs a crime.

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Paul Schwartz's avatar

I heard $15 for the penal system

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Donna Israel's avatar

I beleive that was for one year.

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chev_chelios's avatar

and with supposedly more planned to be funded by the US with El Salvador in the future....hey muskrat you POS, how's all that waste and fraud going ? ....

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LAURA WIESLER's avatar

According to Sen. van Hollen, the funds agreed to between Trump and the other president is $15 Million. Paid to date is about $4 million. The question the Senator had was where the funds were coming from, as they were not in the continuing resolution and whatever agreement they have has not been made public and we donтАЩt know what, if anything, is in writing.

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Donna Israel's avatar

True!

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Dee Joy's avatar

Trump couldn't care less about the cost of anything.

He's draining the USA daily. He's added trillions to the budget deficit.

He's happy to cut children's, vets and elderly resources and services but will spend $100 million on a bday parade for himself!

Like there's anything to celebrate! Everyone should be in mourning for all the irreparable damage he's done.

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olderwoman's avatar

And today, just today, Elon Musk shut down Americare. The program that forgives student debt for the recent grads doing volunteer work projects. AND Elon Musk shut down Head Start, government funded preschool used heavily by people of limited means. Just to make sure people of all ages suffer, meals on wheels for seniors, also cut.

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Dee Joy's avatar

Omg these billionaires are disgusting. USA is on fast track to become a third world country bc of them. I used to admire them, now I realise they're all evil and greedy and donot deserve wealth.

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WJB Motown's avatar

Hero's like Sen Van Hollen........Bernie and OAC.......are the Winston Churchill''s that will "fight in the streets, beaches and never surrender." Everyone now must take up this positive leadership energy. We have just begun to fight back.

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Donna Israel's avatar

Admired why, because they're rich?

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Dee Joy's avatar

I admired them bc they're smart to become so rich.

I assumed wealthy people donated most of their fortunes to benefit the vulnerable in society. Housing the homeless and feeding the hungry people and animals. I've always had my own wealth dreams of who I'd love to provide for. This year I discovered that most billionaires - dark MAGA, tech bros, heritage foundation, project 2025, Christian nationalists etc are actually evil with evil intentions who hide behind Christianity. All they seem to care about is robbing vulnerable people in any way they can.

Trump regime wants the wealthy ruling class, then their fit slaves to do all their work and the rest of us that cannot serve them due to age, disability or racism - they want to send us all to concentration camps to die. Wtf?? Who thinks like this?? Pure evil that's who thinks like that. It's hard to imagine this kind of evil exists and is trying to take over the world. It's horrific

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Donna Israel's avatar

Key word "assumed." You must know about assume: ass u me!

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Donna Rerecich's avatar

Now NPR & PBS is being attacked.

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WJB Motown's avatar

Making the population stupid....destroying education and re-writing history is the foundation for a fascist\nazi\Trumpian'\MAGA hellscape of existance. David Brooks....a conservative...is calling for mass protests.....boycotts.........now.

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Vel Santic's avatar

Have signed hundreds of petitions against tRumputinist destruction of NPR & PBS a day, since jan. 20ieth 2025 ongoing..

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Pat Robinson's avatar

Not just trump but the entire Republican Congess. They are equally responsible, maybe even more so since they have the power to stop this but choose instead to support whatever trump and musk tell them to do. They are not concerned with waste, but only with pleasing trump and we need to somehow get their constituents to hold them accountable. I know there are many many swing districts where voters can and hopefully will make a difference. I live in Missouri and my MOCs are more trumpish than even trump...all they care about is a pat on the head from trump and they know they will never be voted out so I concentrate on helping in other districts where there is a chance of making a change. I do call my MOCs almost every day but know it has no impact.

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Mary Frances's avatar

I am also in "red, red, red Missouri" and utterly disgusted by Hawley, Schmitt, and all the others. They are unresponsive to my multiple communications (calls, email, etc). I was a R back in the Reagan era, and for many years after that, but they have lost me completely. I recall Claire McCaskill succeeded as a Democratic Senator. Maybe we could bring someone like her back into office.

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Pat Robinson's avatar

I really like Lucas Kunce and don't know exactly why he did not do better. I do think that many democrat type folks have left the state since the days of McCaskill....it has become too backward a state to want to raise a family in and it has become so red that it does not seem possible to change anything. I think the education level in the state has decreased and the poverty level increased in the past several years and why would anyone want to move/stay here if they had other options (I do not have other options at this time due to long standing obligations and my personal values are that you honor commitments). Every now and then I get to talk to an actual person rather than have to leave a voice mail and if I get a response, it's a lie...like Oh we are not going to cut Medicaid or Medicare or Social Security, or Schmitt supports Ukraine. And to be honest it's probably best when I just have to leave a voice mail because I don't get carried away and basically call the person I'm talking to a liar. I'm not going to change anything by doing that but sometimes I just can't help myself!

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Donna Israel's avatar

When is our Bastille Day?

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Paul Schwartz's avatar

Did I hear 15M

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bitchybitchybitchy's avatar

I have heard six million but also fifteen million.

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Gina Prescott's avatar

I read T was paying $24,000 per prisoner per month. Much less than it costs to imprison a person in the US

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Dr Cannie Stark's avatar

Less likely to die in an Amerucan prison though. That seems not to be taken into consideration.

The cost per month, even in El Salvador, is OUTRAGEOUS! Where is all that money going? Not to the prison workers I assume?

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Black Raven's avatar

15 million! It is outrages, and not to mention, CRIMINAL.

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Ren's avatar

It's approximately $20k/detainee per year, with about $4mil already on the books out of an original $6mil deal, which has just been enlarged to $15million. This should not be conflated with the Congressionally appropriated aid funds for their pandemic recovery. Also interesting to note that under Trump's first term, Congress appropriated approximately $411 million to El Salvador for them to address the "underlying drivers of migration."

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SFGal's avatar

So that's how Bukele affords his Armani wardrobe as "coolest dictator"

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Ren's avatar

Hit enter too soon: we have historically mucked up most of Central America, and especially El Salvador. They use the USD (and bitcoin) as legal tender. The "money to address migration" trend continued under Biden. This is a fairly good overview of relations/monetary policy: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47083

However, no matter what the relationship monetarily between the two countries, we remain separate sovereignties and by no means should the US government be renditioning anyone to confinement in their prison system.

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Dorethea Powell's avatar

Millions of course and somehow they have received some it it without congressional approval.

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Donna Israel's avatar

Don't pay them, and they will empty the cells very quickly. You know, we have to pay rent!

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Dr Cannie Stark's avatar

And HOW they will "empty" those cells is the SCARY thought!

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Karen Thompson's avatar

Millions and millions of

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Michael deCamp's avatar

I think about $3 + million.

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Dr Cannie Stark's avatar

I heard each of them say $6 million, but they didn't say what for in that press conference. Of course tomorrow it could be $120 million ...

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Ermila Garza's avatar

If all prisons were private, I'm sure Abrego Garcia would be returned.

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