Summary
The U.S. military’s deportation flight to Guatemala, ordered by Trump, cost approximately $4,675 per migrant—over five times the price of a first-class commercial ticket.
The C-17 military aircraft operation is significantly more expensive than ICE’s commercial charter flights, which cost around $630 per person.
Trump defended the policy, vowing to continue deportations and warning countries that refuse cooperation.
The program, part of Trump’s national emergency declaration, has already deported hundreds, though some countries, like Colombia, have resisted.
I don’t wanna be that guy, but these pilots and planes gotta keep flying for training and logging proper hours. If it wasn’t this, it was going to be something else.
Still deplorable, but it’s hard to say that this specific action incurred the high cost of the flight. A flight of some form or another on this same plane was going to need to happen anyway.
Yeah but that’s under the DOD budget, not the ICE budget. It’s okay we’ll just cut troop pay again, they’ll understand…
“But my taxes?! Oh wait…it’s to get rid of brown people and not provide healthcare. That’s fine.” - some maga cult member
Keep in mind how little taxes he paid, and you know why he does not care about government wasting money. He simply has no stake in it.
While you’re correct, another option would be to use that money to help his fellow countrymen, but apparently that isn’t American.
MAGA has a hardon for cruelty. They love the idea of these non-white people who have been working hard and paying taxes being handcuffed and blind folded, flown under armed escort, and humiliated by being treated like prisoners. They vigorously touch themselves and each other while watching Fox “News” coverage. They will allow the billionaires in the cabinet to loot the country bankrupt as long as they’re hurting “them”.
MAGA:
Which is exactly why they are going to stop doing it and either use immigrants as slave labor or just concentrate them at Gitmo until they decide that a Final Solution to the Immigrant Question is the most cost-effective strategy.
Hmm… sounds familiar.
They would have to fly, or ship them to Gitmo too. I can’t imagine that being any cheaper.
Not if they don’t plan on keeping them alive. Which was what I was suggesting.
Oh they can always slow boat them too.
Isn’t gitmo an incredibly small prison anyway?
There’s got to be millions of undocumented people, they’ll never fit in a little peninsula…
How can people not see where things are going
The announced plan is to build new facility with a capacity for 30,000, on the other side of the Guantanamo Bay from the existing prison.
Assume that they can see where things are going, and that enough of them are okay with that.
That’s what we should be reacting to.
Sadly, I am aware. That’s why I sad the Gitmo thing. But they won’t be able to keep them there forever and they will not spend this kind of money deporting them all, so there are really only two choices they will make since letting them go isn’t something they’re willing to consider: slave labor or death.
A U.S. official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, estimated the cost to operate a C-17 military transport aircraft is $28,500 per hour.
Or instead of making up fake officials, you could google “Fixed Wings and Helicopter Reimbursement Rates 2025”, look up C-17A and see that the hourly rate is $19,862.
Your gotcha is that it only cost $3000 per person to deport them?
There is no gotcha, I am just pointing out a blatant lie.
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Wait until you see how much money this saves you at the grocery store. This is going to be one hell of a “find out” moment for a whole lot of bigots.
You also missed the point. Why even pay the high cost of a military flight when they could just send them on commercial flights? It’s because they love the visuals of human beings in chains being loaded into military transports. They kicked the porn out of red states, so they gotta get their fetish material somewhere.
It won’t save anyone any money. American labor is expensive.
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I’m concerned about the danger many of these individuals represent.
Such as true Americans having to hear people speaking in Spanish!
Handouts? What handouts? Illegal immigrants don’t qualify for any government assistance, pay into social security that they likely will never receive, pay taxes, and overall contribute to the functioning of society.
Ah yes, because every single illegal immigrant takes handouts and leeches off society without giving anything back./s
Spoiler alert: most of them don’t take handouts, and instead contribute in other positive ways. Good example: Who do you think is going to work at our below minimum wage picking many of the crops that go into domestically-product foods that Americans eat? Because it sure as hell won’t be legal Americans.
Most of them pay taxes too!
You’re absolutely right. No job in the USA should ever pay less than minimum wage. Costs will increase, but so will the average prosperity. If we can manage to deflate the currency and keep more domestic products here in the country, we’re all better off.
This is the funniest thing I read all day, thank you.
The only part of that which would actually happen is costs increasing.
You better be in the fields picking them veggies then.
Personally? No. But I’m also not currently unemployed. There are others who are.
Good for you for sacrificing others on your behalf! Selfishness is the most American trait of all!
Enjoy the leopards.
The minimum wage which hasn’t been increased in decades and all proposals are shot down because it will increase the price of McDouble?
So kids in schools are criminals as well?
Edit: can’t answer this question, can you?
The answer is most likely yes, but I hope I don’t have to read them say so.
I’m concerned about the danger many of these individuals represent.
These are incredibly dangerous people.
This shit doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Take a close look at who they’re spending extra money and effort to scoop up and ship off, and compare that to who they’re setting free.
I’m not concerned about the cost of one flight. I’m concerned about the brown many of these individuals represent. And I’m concerned about the long-term impact that allowing coloreds around me will have. One expensive airplane flight keeps these non-whites out of US hospitals, schools, housing, and jobs.
Here, I thought it might be helpful to clarify your position for the people who don’t speak conservative.
If they were actually dangerous & had committed violent crimes they wouldn’t be deported, they’d be sent to one of our prisons right here in the USA.
The fact that they’re being deported means that the only crime they committed was being here illegally, which means they aren’t dangerous.
They were probably getting paid less than minimum wage to do a job, that needs to be done, but American citizens don’t want to do.
The irony of this person having Spider Jerusalem as their avatar sickens me.
My brother in Christ, Spider would stomp your face into the pavement until you shit yourself and then leave you crying in your own feces. Take your entire Transmet collection out to a library and donate it, because you didn’t understand one single fucking word, and never will.
I’m concerned about the danger many of these individuals represent.
How many? Which danger? Do you know that these are dangerous people or have you just heard the line that some of them have committed crimes? They will always mention this in order to get people to associate immigrants with criminality, but it is always kept very vague. The vagueness enables them to round up whoever they choose, while claiming that “some” people in the group are criminals. They could round up everyone on your street, or everyone on your family, and send them away on this basis.
If you have seen something I haven’t, and know that theres more to it than this attempt to color the reputation of whole groups of people, I’m open to new information. But that’s what it seems like to me.
Are they eating the dogs and cats?
