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[–] mr_manager 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Optics discussion aside, I think it cost like $800k to transport them via C130. There’s no reason to use this method other than to grandstand. They’ve sent thousands of folks back to Colombia via commercial and chartered flights.

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts 1 points 1 week ago

+1 convincing argument

Even IF it were a legitimate way to treat people who'd broken the law, it's an unnecessarily expensive way of doing it