Taxpayers will foot the bill.
With the humanitarian crisis at the southern border worsening to the point that the media can no longer ignore it, the Biden regime finds itself in an awkward position as pressure mounts to do something.
There was no avoiding the border swarming after Democrats and lunchbucket Joe based their campaigns on reversing the no-nonsense immigration policies of former President Donald J. Trump and they made it clear that they would be rolling out the welcome mat for the largely unskilled poor people that their own countries were likely glad to be rid of.
Faced with the delicate balancing act of dealing with the warehousing of migrants in conditions of squalor and upsetting their activist base, Biden and the ideologues who set the policies of his administration have come up with a solution.
According to an Axios report, Biden will throw money at the problem through an obscene $86 million contract with hotels near the border to provide food and lodging to a reported 1,200 migrant family members which will do little to address the catastrophe but will be swooned over by the corrupt media.
For all you idiots that voted for this guy… let this sink in: Biden Spends $86 Million in Hotel Rooms for Illegal Aliens | https://t.co/9kDG38btq8 https://t.co/wyd7eyeOBv via @Newsmax
— Bernard B. Kerik (@BernardKerik) March 21, 2021
Via Breitbart News; “Joe Biden to Spend $86 Million on Hotel Rooms for Border Crossers”:
President Joe Biden’s administration has awarded a taxpayer-funded contract to pay for hotel rooms for border crossers arriving at the United States-Mexico border.
An Axios report reveals that Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will pay a Texas-based nonprofit to provide $86 million worth of hotel rooms for six months for approximately 1,200 families who cross the southern border. DHS confirmed the arrangement.
The hotel rooms, according to Axios, will be in Arizona and Texas near the southern border and will serve as welcoming centers for border crossers whom the Biden administration is hoping to quickly release into the U.S. interior.
Already, detention facilities at the southern border are being reworked to become similar-style welcoming centers for border crossers where adults and children are released within a 72-hour period. The administration is looking to welcome nearly 120,000 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) into the U.S. this year.
The contract smacks of more narrative engineering from Democrats so they can direct their media allies to report on how well that the administration is treating the migrants while the tens of thousands who aren’t fortunate enough to win the hotel lottery will still be crammed into tents where children aren’t allowed to bathe regularly.
It is also an insult to those American citizens who have been devastated by Democrat lockdowns and other restrictions and don’t enjoy housing that would be comparable with the hotels that are being provided to the illegal immigrants.
Unable – and possibly unwilling – to solve a problem of their own making, the Biden regime is once again resorting to gaslighting the public and in addition to the $86 million for the hotel rooms, has imposed a “gag order” on Border Patrol personnel to prevent them from telling the truth to the media.
Meanwhile, Biden has reportedly reached out to the government of Mexico to urge the country to do more to prevent the surge of migrants before they reach the U.S. border; the newly installed POTUS has also personally appealed to the migrants to stay home.
With the news of the hotels buying Biden some time, efforts are currently underway to relocate thousands of the migrants further into the United States including plans to fly them to states along the Canadian border, a nifty bit of trickery that will bolster Democrat voting rolls in several red states.
The ultimate result will be that nothing will stop the migrants who understand that the borders are now open and free healthcare and other giveaways await them in the land of plenty.