What summer camp costs $775 PER DAY PER KID? Our new Child "tent city" concentration camps

This classy, luxurious, three bedroom suite at Trump Tower Las Vegas has amazing views of the lighted city in the desert, and great amenities.  According to the Trump Hotel website, suites at this hotel start at $165 per night plus taxes and all that.  I didn't see specific prices for the 3 bedroom suites, but I'm guessing you could rent one for less than $775 a night.

I know money is not the highest priority in our current intentionally created crisis that has kids and parents in asylum seeking families now spread all over the U.S.  The vast majority of Americans, as seen in the uproar this week, want these families reunited and treated as well as possible as their cases for political asylum are considered.

By now, you've no doubt seen the "tent city" in Tornillo, Texas where a large number of kids are being housed away from their parents.  The tents do have air conditioning, which is good, but it's still a camp for kids.  Detention center.  Internment camp.  Concentration camp.  Call it what you will, that tent city, and others like it, are being set up in a hurry.  And according to this CNBC article today, it costs $775 of your tax dollars,  per day, per child.  I heard the initial report of this on MSNBC, but here's the business news channel sharing that information, which came straight from the Department of Health & Human Services.

So...  you see where I'm going with this.  For what the authorities (and private contractors) are spending to house these children in an insanely hot part of Texas, they could put six of these kids in this luxurious suite on the 62nd floor of Trump Tower Las Vegas, and they would still make an insane profit.  I doubt the kids would mind sharing a bed after the floor mats and mylar blankets.  And yes, there are for profit prison companies involved in detaining these immigrants.  This part of this horrific story is still evolving and coming to light.  We still don't know exactly who is profiting from this tragedy, and how much they're making.

I'm not trying to downplay the terrible human cost of these current policies, and it didn't stop with the Executive Order last night.  We know 2,600 kids are away from their parents, allover the U.S. now.  We don't know where kids detained the next few days will end up, and whether they will be able to stay with their parents.  I'm just shining a light on the financial side of this story, which is yet another reason to find much better ways of handling our immigration issues.

And just for the record, I lived for a year in Carlsbad, New Mexico as a kid, and I spent a lot of time with my dad, his friends, and my Boy Scout troop out in the desert there.  It's a brutal and deadly environment.  A person can EASILY die in a day or two out there.  People don't make a journey like this unless they have a really good reason.

We can do better than this people.  We're Americans. 

The weather report for Tornillo says it will hit 103 degrees today, and will be over 102 degrees for the next week.  The kids probably won't be playing much soccer today.