Opinion Elon Musk says FEMA sent $59M last week to luxury NYC hotels to house illegal migrants. Edit: see bottom of the OPs

[pv3Hpv3p]

Between Texas and California there's over 200 migrant detention facilities made for this purpose.

That's trash and you know it.

Let someone else deal with it, right?

 

[Rational Poster]

That's trash and you know it.

Let someone else deal with it, right?

No. We deal with the migrants closer to where the cross over because it's cheaper than sending them all over the country.

 

[S Class]

DOGE doing their thing. Every day has been awesome so far for the God Emperor's 2nd term.

 

[DoctorTaco]

 

[Hog-train]

Your quote left out that:
El Paso, a Democratic-led city, also sent new arrivals to New York at the migrants’ request, officials there have said, and some people have made their own way.

So, it's not a small fraction came from Texas, it's that a small fraction came from Abbot, but they still came from Texas. And NYC says that El Paso tells them that a bus is coming but doesn't actually coordinate about if there's even space for another busload of people from Texas.

And you're ignoring "at the migrant's request." They want to come to NY due to the homeless housing laws.

And also ignoring even with Abbot and El Paso bussing in immigrants, that is still a minority of the numbers. The majority are just coming here voluntarily on their own.

And yes the city is footing part of the costs. They have a pre-existing right to shelter law. But the law was written for the homeless, not necessarily migrants. So, now they're requesting the normal federal aid. They can use 2 sources of funds for the issue. But the OP was about sending federal money to luxury hotels without mentioning that the "luxury hotel" was literally converted into a migrant intake center.

City and the state are still shouldering the bulk of the cost - not the Feds.

 

[avenue94]

Exactly what anyone loves to hear from an "auditor"

 

[pv3Hpv3p]

No. We deal with the migrants closer to where the cross over because it's cheaper than sending them all over the country.

It's crazy that you actually believe this.

 

[Cartiac]

It's crazy that you actually believe this.

There is some simple minded truth to what he is saying. It is in fact much cheaper for these "sanctuary" cities to exploit immigration for their personal gain as long as Texas continued to pay the majority of the costs.

But dude is laughably stupid not understanding how much cheaper a bus ticket from El Paso to NYC is than paying to keep those illegals in Texas.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Who cares? Neither Mozambique or Gaza are worth $50 Million.

 

[Seano]

I guess I'm supposed to be happy we're sending 50 million to Mozambique?

 

[Cajun]

Don't you think he shouldn't ignore it at all? The normal push and pull is that POTUS cancels the EO that got blocked and tries to craft a new, similar one that adheres to the previous court order or takes it's concerns into consideration. The judiciary exists to check the other branches in that manner, doesn't it bother you that instead of respecting that Trump's admin is openly pushing back? We're less than a month in and we might be facing a constitutional crisis, kinda wild no?

You can't ignore a court order forever but there is time imo. I expect that the dems filing in the court will continue to do so throughout his term. Thats how it gets into the court. I think there is leeway in the time for reaction and strategy. This thing will continue to go through the courts. With approval at 53% I think there will be a dem strategy to file and keep things in the courts. Trump could draft a new order as you say with more specificity which is what the judge ruled or appeal the decision. Getting a favorable/less favorable judge matters obv. I think one fil8ng was Letitia James in New York which isn't surprising.

 

[Seano]

No. We deal with the migrants closer to where the cross over because it's cheaper than sending them all over the country.

Thats pretty ridiculous. Let everyone else foot the cost and deal with all the problems associated with the problem you created?
Your neighborhood should be prioritized to take as many as can be bused in.

 

[italiamusica]

This is the part that so many Trump/Musk ball garglers are ignoring. "Some of the things I say will be incorrect" loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool, just an open interpretation of, "I can do and say what I want"

 

[Rational Poster]

Thats pretty ridiculous. Let everyone else foot the cost and deal with all the problems associated with the problem you created?
Your neighborhood should be prioritized to take as many as can be bused in.

No it's not ridiculous. You act like moving them is free.

The cost is the same to us no matter where the migrants are processed. It's expensed by the federal government. Even the states that pay for them over the short term, eventually recoup most those expenses from the federal government as immigration is their responsibility.

We're still all paying for it no matter where they're processed and it makes more sense to do it the cheapest way possible rather than the most inefficient way possible.

 

[Rational Poster]

It's crazy that you actually believe this.

It's crazy that you're an adult that doesn't understand that moving people and building detention centers all over the country is not cheaper than dealing with the problem localized to where it's occurring.


A completely child-like understanding of logistics.

 

[Andy Capp]

Isn't Benny Johnson one of the Tenet media guys who was being bankrolled by Russia?

Was?

 

[Andy Capp]

LMAO @ "discovers"

 

[Islam Imamate]

You can't ignore a court order forever but there is time imo. I expect that the dems filing in the court will continue to do so throughout his term. Thats how it gets into the court. I think there is leeway in the time for reaction and strategy. This thing will continue to go through the courts. With approval at 53% I think there will be a dem strategy to file and keep things in the courts. Trump could draft a new order as you say with more specificity which is what the judge ruled or appeal the decision. Getting a favorable/less favorable judge matters obv. I think one fil8ng was Letitia James in New York which isn't surprising.

So you're okay with Trump ignoring the order temporarily?

 

[Cajun]

So you're okay with Trump ignoring the order temporarily?

Depends on how temporary. Again, there is usually a window to respond or appeal to any order.

 

[Islam Imamate]

Depends on how temporary. Again, there is usually a window to respond or appeal to any order.

That's not what seems to be happening here though, he seems to be straight up trying to ignore the order. You don't have an issue with that?