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To: koan who wrote (358364)6/26/2025 5:14:22 PM
From: S. maltophilia  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 361058
 
annual operating cost is estimated at $450 million, with the capacity to house 5,000 migrants

Be much more efficient to give them the $90K directly as a start to a middle class life.

Are they proposing to import dangerous snakes? There's already plenty of pythons, who are harmless to adults and rather intelligent. Alligator Alcatraz is just another environmental insult to what's left of the Everglades. I'm sure it could be replaced by more sugar plantations
https://www.amazon.com/Big-Sugar-Seasons-Fields-Florida/dp/0679731873/ref=sr_1_3?s=books
and golf courses.

We're on the cusp of a monumental step back. Will it be as long as the second half of the first millennium CE, or longer? Who says we have to take two steps forward after that?