Watchdog finds Trump admin spent $66 million jailing a few dozen at a time at migrant prison camp

[LiberalArkie]

The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) says the Trump administration wasted nearly $70 million over a period of five months to jail fewer than 70 people at a tent city in Tornillo, Texas last year, including shelling out over $5 million for hundreds of thousands of meals that were never actually ordered because there were no detainees. We know mass detention has always been cruel and unnecessary—and as the report also shows, a complete waste of your money and mine.

“Based on our analysis, [Customs and Border Protection] paid approximately $5.3 million for meals it did not need during the initial period of performance,” the GAO said in the report. While CBP ordered meals for Tornillo’s full 2,500 capacity, in reality, only a couple dozen people were detained at a time during the prison camp’s five months of operation. “As such, CBP paid for about 675,000 meals during the initial period of performance despite only ordering 13,428 meals.”

“During the initial period of performance,” the GAO continued, “CBP paid the contractor to operate the facility at full capacity, including food and guard services, regardless of the number of individuals housed in the facility, due to the terms of the delivery order it negotiated with the contractor.” So few people were jailed at Tornillo that the round-the-clock guards vastly outnumbered the number of people, with quite a few left over.

“Based on our analysis, CBP paid approximately $6.7 million for 75 unarmed contract security guards on-site at the Tornillo facility at all times to report any situations with individuals held in the facility and provide facility and perimeter security, though the facility had an approximate average daily population of 28 adults,” the report said. In addition to about two dozen CBP and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, nearly 120 Texas National Guardsmen were dispatched to assist in “logistical support, such as meal distribution and monitoring security cameras, among other things.”

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/10/1936167/-Watchdog-finds-Trump-admin-spent-66-million-jailing-a-few-dozen-at-a-time-at-migrant-prison-camp#read-more

[underpants]

1. I smell some black ops money in there

Just saying.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. naw, went to one of Trump's lackey supporters.

[blm]

3. Follow the money - it's skimmed, kickbacked to Trump, his pals, campaign

or ALL of the above.