• CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Only $162,000 per room yearly or $13,700 per month. What a bargain! Looks like their math is off though. At $352 per night x 14k rooms, they’re about $500 million short of $2.3B but maybe that’s bribery money that isn’t counted toward housing these people.

    According to Google, there are plenty of rooms at $100-$200 per night so why are they spending so much? Classic government ‘assistance’ where they make a big show of passing legislation and then barely any of the money alloted actually winds up where it’s supposed to and instead winds up in the pockets of some contracting company.

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      2 months ago

      It’d the telegraph. A Murdoch owned right wing rag that is just ginning up hate for immigrants in any way possible. I’d expect most of the article is made up.

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      Any idea what kind of an organization you would need to coordinate this kind of operation. Most likely the cost mentioned is the “all in” price for the whole ordeal surrounding these people.