jesse: you expect politicians to go to washington. some of them get small apartments. and others work really hard writing legislation. others, the only reason they go into politics is for the free meals and live a lifestyle they would never be able to live anywhere else because they don t have the talent or the work ethic to pull it off. you get to stay at ritz carltons and eat sushi rolls. and everything is paid for by lobbyists. and everything that s not, is paid for by us, the taxpayer. if he held himself to the same standard as he held trump to, there would be investigators looking into these trips.
innuendo. jesse: you expect politicians to go to washington. some of them get small apartments. and others work really hard writing legislation. others, the only reason they go into politics is for the free meals and live a lifestyle they would never be able to live anywhere else because they don t have the talent or the work ethic to pull it off. you get to stay at ritz carltons and eat sushi rolls. and everything is paid for by lobbyists. and everything that s not, is paid for by us, the taxpayer. if he held himself to the same standard as he held trump to, there would be investigators looking into these trips.
innuendo. jesse: you expect politicians to go to washington. some of them get small apartments. and others work really hard writing legislation. others, the only reason they go into politics is for the free meals and live a lifestyle they would never be able to live anywhere else because they don t have the talent or the work ethic to pull it off. you get to stay at ritz carltons and eat sushi rolls. and everything is paid for by lobbyists. and everything that s not, is paid for by us, the taxpayer. if he held himself to the same standard as he held trump to, there would be investigators looking into these trips.
yeah. these are not ritz-carltons. and to make it worse, these kids are being kept there not for the 20 days they re allowed to be kept by law, but, rather, for five, six, seven we ve interviewed children who have been in these facilities for longer than nine months at this cost. if you do the analysis, chris, you will find out that you can save the taxpayers $1 billion a year simply by taking the children who have families here in the united states, who have parents in the united states, and placing them with those parents. all right. professor, thank you so much for sharing that. you re welcome. thank you, chris. i want to bring in congressman michael burgess, republican of texas. congressman, i would imagine the first question is that you and your colleagues agree that these kinds of conditions are appalling and unacceptable. well, certainly it hasn t been my experience. i ve visited orr and cbp facilities on a lot of occasions, as recently as three weeks ago down in m
the bureaucracy that oversaw child separation, that they are essentially just allowing these children to languish in these facilities? right. and i don t want to say that they re allowing them to languish because that s not precisely i think the dynamic that we re seeing here. what we re seeing is massive mismanagement of yeah. of this department. and a tremendous waste of taxpayer money. so that, for example, right now many of these children are being put when they are in orr custody in placements at places like homestead and the walmart, which i ve visited, the tent city when that was open, which i also inspected. these facilities cost about $750 per day per child. that is what we would pay to put a child in the ritz-carlton. yeah. these are not ritz-carltons. and to make it worse, these kids are being kept there not for the 20 days they re allowed to be kept by law, but, rather, for five, six, seven we ve interviewed children who have