by WorldTribune Staff, March 30, 2025 Real World News

A recent ABC News headline blared: “Southwest border mission has cost $330M so far — with over $40M for Guantanamo Bay alone”.

ABC is outraged at the $300 million price tag for President Donald Trump securing the border.

Only weeks into the second Trump Administration, the once chaotic and often violent U.S.-Mexico border is now ‘under control,’ according to analysts sent to critical sectors by The Center for Immigration Studies.

So, ABC, what was the cost of the Biden-Harris administration not securing the border?

Crickets.

The House Budget Committee estimated the cost of the Biden-Harris open border policies at $150 billion. Others put it at $200 billion or even higher.

So, $330 million would be around 0.2% of $150 billion.

“To put that $330 million into context, under Biden, DHS allocated $380 million for migrant-infested areas through FEMA in August 2024,” Front Page Magazine’s Daniel Greenfield noted. “We’re spending a fraction on an ounce of prevention here to secure the border.

“The media hypes the cost of securing the border, but refuses to discuss the cost of open borders.”

Meanwhile, border coyotes who are reportedly offering self-deportation services are making millions.

“I’ve been a journalist for more than 25 years, but I never thought I would see this — ‘paquetes de retorno,’ ” said Alfredo Corchado, an American journalist in Texas and Mexico and an executive editor at the Puente News Collaborative.

On March 26 he told an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations:

“[Coyotes] are now offering packages where [migrant] people can go back home …. [If] you want to go home, or you want to go back to Honduras, or maybe you don’t want to go back to Honduras because it’s too dangerous. [Or] you don’t want to go to Guatemala, but maybe you want to go to Costa Rica, and so they’re offering these [smuggling] packages where you can just go back home. Not all of them are taking it, I mean, many [are].”

A growing number of illegal migrants are smuggling themselves out of the United States to avoid the legal penalties of government deportations, Breitbart News reported on Saturday.

If illegal aliens are deported by the United States government, they are separated from their families and detained in crowded jails, sometimes for many weeks. Once legally deported, migrants cannot visit the U.S. for 10 years or longer, even when their relatives remain in the country. They also lose possessions and easy access to their bank accounts.

Haitians “are self-deporting right now because they don’t want the worst thing … because [the government] does send them back to Haiti immediately,” Jeff Lamour, an American businessman in Albertville, Alabama, told Breitbart News on Friday.

Lamour noted: “This [self-deporting] industry with the coyotes, it has become a multi-million dollar industry over here now. You got those guys that are going from Indiana, from Alabama, in those vans where they’re smuggling people to New Mexico, to border states.

“They’re making a ton of money. If they go deposit money at the bank, it’s going to raise a red flag. You know, I had a gentleman a couple days ago trying to buy a car with cash, straight cash. He just don’t know what to do with it because he has a lot of cash from the shuttle industry.”

Northbound migrants are also turning back homewards.

“It is true that people are going different directions,” Caleb Vitello, a senior official in the Trump Administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, told the Council on Foreign Relations. For example, the northward foot and boat traffic in the dangerous Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama has dropped “because people aren’t risking that walk or that dangerous journey through there,” he said.

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