$ 4,000 a day; The cost of maintaining immigrants in guanttanamo

Senator Peters, a senior Democrat of the State Relations and Security Committee of the US Senate, asked Interior Minister Christie Noim about the high cost of detained immigrants in Guanettanamo.

Senator Peters also raised the question of why detainees should be transferred to the US Navy’s base in Cuba at the expense of US taxpayers and then returned to the United States, according to Reuters.

“We have to pay $ 6,000 every day to keep each of them in Guenteana,” he said. We have to keep them there and then return to America again. In my opinion, this is not true. “

The White House has called for a dramatic increase in budget for immigration laws in an effort to achieve US President Donald Trump’s goal of widespread immigration. The government has also called on Congress this month to allocate another $ 5 billion to the Department of Homeland Security in the fiscal year on October 1.

The US Secretary of Security, in response to the talk from Senator Peters, said he did not know how much the daily cost of these immigrants in the Gulf of Guantana.

A US official who asked not to be named said there are currently four immigrants in the center.

Republican Senator Rand Paul also raised concerns about the costs of more barriers to the US -Mexico border, given that the number of immigrants crossing the border illegally has fallen sharply since Trump came to power.

According to the US House of Representatives’ comprehensive budget plan, $ 1.5 billion will only be allocated to the border wall.

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