Those Costly Illegals: Four Months of ‘Basic Shelter Care’ Cost Twice a Year at Sidwell Friends

CNS News reports:

A Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) contractor spent $86,846.34 to provide “basic shelter care” for each unaccompanied minor aged 12 to 17 who illegally crossed the southern border and was housed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma earlier this year, according to documents released to Judicial Watch under a Freedom of Information Act request.

That sum is more than twice the cost of tuition and fees for an entire year at Sidwell Friends, the exclusive private school in northwest Washington, D.C. that Sasha and Malia Obama and Vice President Joe Biden’s grandchildren attend.

Tuition at Sidwell Friends is $36,264 per year for middle and upper school students, which includes a hot lunch each day. Adding up all the additional fees the school charges for textbooks, laptops, transportation and optional after school care, the total cost of attendance for one year comes to $41,014 – or less than half of what HHS spent to house one unaccompanied minor on the Oklahoma military base from June 12 to October 18.

“The Obama administration paid Baptist Children and Family Services (BCFS) $182,129,786 to provide ‘basic shelter care’ to 2,400 ‘unaccompanied alien children’ for four months in 2014,” according to Judicial Watch. Half were sent to Fort Sill, while the other half went to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.

Yet, Barack Obama claims they somehow are a net plus for taxpayers!