Thursday 18 March 2021

Watching Video

I sat last night and watched raw video from the Texas border....around six minutes worth....with migrant 'kids' who've crossed the border.

So three things really stand out.  For each female you see (teenage female)....there's probably twelve male migrant 'kids'.  For male 'kid' age?  I'd put the bulk of males at ages fourteen to sixteen.  Finally....at least three 'kids' from this video collection...I'd put at age six to eight.  

A magnificent mess?  

You go and listen to the PhD guys do the numbers and they generally believe between now and the end of the year.....between 175k and 200k 'youths' will arrive at the border.  The Biden policy?  They won't be sent home.

So then you ask....how do you handle this?

My humble guess/scenario?

You go to one-hundred-odd communities around the US, and approach the city-child-services organization....more or less....stating that you will dump kids at their door-step.

In the beginning, it'll be a busload of sixty kids that they dump. A city like SF will hype up their acceptance, and the SF child-services agency will demand around $50,000 a year per kid....to cover maintenance, housing, food, medical care, English tutoring, and school costs.  

A month later (April)....another sixty passenger bus arrives.  The cost factor moves up a notch....$55k a year.  

A month later (May)....another sixty passenger bus arrives.  SF child-services now admit a problem in managing the young males (13-to-17 years old).  They admit that a quarter of their in-home managers have quit because of intimidation or threats. They up the cost factor to $65k a year.

A month later (June)....three sixty passenger buses arrive.  SF child-services is now in crisis mode and admitting that thirty of the 'kids' from the original bus have disappeared.  They also admit that five of the 'kids' are in juvenile detention, and legal help is costly.  They tell the US government (the Biden administration) that the new cost level is $95k a year.  

A month later (July)....nine sixty passenger buses arrive.  SF child-service has reached maximum crisis level and admitting that they have lost track of 150 of the kids delivered since March.  The new rate of cost?  It's reaching upwards to $125k per kid, per year.

Journalists in August from various bay area news outlets are now asking if the crisis can ever be brought under control.  

The mayor and city council by November...reach a stage where they tell the Biden administration that they've hit maximum capacity, and they want roughly $300k per year.  

That's just one single town on one single scenario.  Multiply it by 100.  

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