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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 869249" data-attributes="member: 12952">The Arizona Republic The Department of Homeland Security continues to spend millions of&nbsp; dollars flying illegal immigrants caught along the Arizona border back&nbsp; to Mexico each summer even though government officials and humanitarian&nbsp; groups question whether the program is effective or worth the cost.&nbsp;The agency has spent more than $85 million over the past eight years&nbsp; to transport Mexican illegal immigrants far beyond the border in a&nbsp; humanitarian effort aimed at saving lives by deterring migrants from&nbsp; making another dangerous border crossing.&nbsp;But it has no real way to gauge the value of the program.&nbsp;Though the department defends its repatriation flights, officials&nbsp; chose not to act on recommendations by government auditors to measure&nbsp; whether the program is effective.&nbsp;Both DHS and Mexican officials insist it works. They say that flying&nbsp; thousands of apprehended migrants 1,100 miles into Mexico instead of&nbsp; simply dropping them off at the border makes the migrants less likely to&nbsp; hook up again with human smugglers and try to cross through Arizona’s&nbsp; rugged, remote desert, where over the years hundreds of migrants have&nbsp; died in the brutal summer heat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 869249, member: 12952"] [B]The Arizona Republic[/B] The Department of Homeland Security continues to spend millions of dollars flying illegal immigrants caught along the Arizona border back to Mexico each summer even though government officials and humanitarian groups question whether the program is effective or worth the cost. The agency has spent more than $85 million over the past eight years to transport Mexican illegal immigrants far beyond the border in a humanitarian effort aimed at saving lives by deterring migrants from making another dangerous border crossing. But it has no real way to gauge the value of the program. Though the department defends its repatriation flights, officials chose not to act on recommendations by government auditors to measure whether the program is effective. Both DHS and Mexican officials insist it works. They say that flying thousands of apprehended migrants 1,100 miles into Mexico instead of simply dropping them off at the border makes the migrants less likely to hook up again with human smugglers and try to cross through Arizona’s rugged, remote desert, where over the years hundreds of migrants have died in the brutal summer heat. [/QUOTE]

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