Wasserman Schultz: Trump Wasting ‘Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Deporting People’

[rangerrebew]

Wasserman Schultz: Trump Wasting ‘Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Deporting People’
 

Pam Key26 Dec 20251,343
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Friday on “MS NOW Reports,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said President Donald Trump was wasting “hundreds of millions of dollars deporting people from this country.”

Wasserman Schultz said, “The reports out of the immigration detention centers that we’re hearing, even without the Washington Post report, have credible threats of torture, credible reports of torture. We have immigrants who are dying in these detention centers. The conditions are horrific. I can confirm that, having gone to the Everglades detention center, where I sponsored legislation to have it shut down. This is a situation where Donald Trump wants to draw people’s attention away from the fact that life in America under his presidency is unaffordable, skyrocketing health care costs, which are about to get worse in four days from now when the enhanced premium tax credits expire, increasing rents and unacceptably high utility rates. So, of course, scapegoating the vulnerable is what this is about. But we need to make sure that there is transparency and sunlight on what’s going on in these detention centers. And we need to hold him to his promise, where he lied and said at the beginning of his term this year that he was going to go after the worst of the worst. That is the furthest thing from what’s happening.”

She added, “America first to me means taking care of people at home and making life affordable when it comes to rent and health care and utilities, and ensuring that they, that Americans can keep the better life that they deserve, not have Trump go after people and waste millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars deporting people from this country.”


https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/12/26/wasserman-schultz-trump-wasting-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-deporting-people/

[rangerrebew]

She seems not to know Biden wasted even more feeding, housing (some at 5-star hotels), clothing, providing medical care, and transportation.

[Smokin Joe]

Just one relative handful of illegals and other immigrants have bilked Minnesota out of an estimated 9 Billion Dollars.

That's a five year (since COVID) tab.

Imagine how much we can save if we just send out 18 million more!

Consider it an investment in America's future.

[GtHawk]

Old Mayonnaise Head, fail o comprehend that the money paid to these illegals to self deport is a drop in the bucket of hat it costs to round them up, prosecute and deport them. And of course she’s okay with the billions of tax dollars paid to support the illegals because they are and will be democrat voterw and place holders for democrats in the census.

[mountaineer]

Taxpayer $ spent on feeding, housing, clothing, schooling, medical care, iPhones, and dealing with their criminal behavior seems more a waste to me than just kicking them out.

[mystery-ak]

DWS claims America ‘can’t afford’ to spend millions deporting illegal aliens
December 27, 2025 | Kevin Haggerty

A Democrat congresswoman shifted from failing to flailing on illegal aliens as she attempted to drop a new spin on expenses and what it means to be “America First.”

On top of restoring affordability and tackling rampant waste, fraud and abuse while negotiating for peace across the globe, President Donald Trump has made restoring American national sovereignty a top priority of his second administration.

Having spent much of 2025 protesting Trump’s mass deportations, including a government shutdown tied to funding health care for illegal aliens, House Democratic Steering Committee chair Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz angled for her party to redefine “America First” while insisting booting foreign nationals costs more money than it saves.

Appearing on MS Now in a clip highlighted by the X account Western Lensman, the congresswoman argued, “Trump’s most popular issue is immigration and … the undocumented immigration that he says is a violent threat to our nation when most people who they are deporting are not criminals and are simply here — who are being rounded up — two weekends ago they rounded up 200 people just by stopping lawn care trucks in the neighborhood right near my own home.”

“Is that who we fear in this country? Or is it that we want to make sure that we keep this country safe and that we can focus on — America First to me means taking care of people at home and making life affordable when it comes to rent, and healthcare, and utilities and insuring that they, Americans can keep the better life that they deserve,” she went on, “not have Trump go after people and waste millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars deporting people from this country.”

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https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/27/dws-claims-america-cant-afford-to-spend-millions-deporting-illegal-aliens-1612451/

[Smokin Joe]

Considering the Billions it costs to maintain the Democrat's herd of pet census fillers and scam artists, spending millions to remove the problem is a good investment. (Every dime of it should be stripped from other Democrat pet programs.)

[Cyber Liberty]

I have to laugh every time a leftist complains about wasting money!  It's like an atheist quoting the Bible....

[Mod2]

Topics merged and moved to Politics.

[mountaineer]

Wilfred Reilly
@wil_da_beast630
I wanted data before any comment.
Got some.
This strikes me as a non-ideal immigrant population.
10:38 PM · Dec 27, 2025