Gen. Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency and CIA, said the constant flow of illegal immigrants should be treated like an insurgency.
"It's not an insurgency. I mean an insurgency has a political aim to overthrow the government," Hayden said on Newsmax TV's "America's Forum." "This is a criminal enterprise that's so big and so powerful that as a byproduct, it actually threatens the government."
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"If you take $3.7 billion and divide it by 52,000 children, that's $71,000 per person," he explained.
"I've gone online and have taken a look on Orbitz and taken a look at what does it cost to fly people to El Salvador and Guatemala and Honduras," Johnson, a Republican, said. "You have fares as low as $207. There's nonstop flights at $450."
"You take those numbers and it costs somewhere between $11 million and $30 million to return people in a very humane fashion," Johnson said.
"We can put them up in a hotel room and make sure they get a shower and feed them," he added.
Johnson said this would be "a far easier way of handling" the situation, and it would also "send the signal to the folks in Central America that you can't come into America and expect to stay."
"I've gone online and have taken a look on Orbitz and taken a look at what does it cost to fly people to El Salvador and Guatemala and Honduras," Johnson, a Republican, said. "You have fares as low as $207. There's nonstop flights at $450."
"You take those numbers and it costs somewhere between $11 million and $30 million to return people in a very humane fashion," Johnson said.
"We can put them up in a hotel room and make sure they get a shower and feed them," he added.
Johnson said this would be "a far easier way of handling" the situation, and it would also "send the signal to the folks in Central America that you can't come into America and expect to stay."
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