And a hotel won’t have purpose built facilities for medical examinations, interviews and recreation (that don’t have be shared with other guests paying out of their own pocket) for any detainees to use. So sure the hotel looks cheap, but only if you look at the end result of a breakdown and not what that breakdown contains.
They're economic and political refugees, not an invading army.
But God forbid anyone in the United States ask themselves
why or
how they're political and economic refugees to begin with.
The US will spend exorbitant amounts of money to make them refugees in the first place in one imperialist boondoggle after another, then spend exorbitant amounts of money ensuring they're treated as inhumanely as public opinion will allow -- and as we've seen, that's nowadays everything short of outright genocide -- but the
nanosecond someone suggests a more cost-effective solution to "fiscal conservatives", well hold the phones, that's treating refugees
better than we treat poor and working class Americans and we can't have that!
But God forbid anyone in the United States ask themselves why the poor and working class in the wealthiest and "most advanced" country on the planet get treated like an third world underclass to begin with.
The point isn't about what's cheapest or most effective, or even what will "deter illegal immigration". The point is dehumanizing the economic and political refugees the US creates then "has" to deal with. The US, after all, needs a permanent underclass to do the jobs no one else wants, that haven't been automated
yet and are likely going away soon to automation anyways. Hell, not that the US is neither unique or even exceptional in this regard, we're basically taking notes from the way the Palestinian diaspora is treated between Israel and its Gulf state bedfellows; but, the point is this hullabaloo isn't and never was about any humanitarian concern save manufacturing consent for exploitation of imported labor.