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It occured to me that if we simply offered them cash in the $50-100 range/day, we'd have plenty of folks willing to stay in Mexico indefinitely awaiting decision in their case. If they take a kid with them, they get their allowance too. People respond to incentives.
Possibly Mexico wouldn't care for it, but the money would spend just fine, and it would be far more cost effective than what we're paying now.
But that would be completely unacceptable, because no one in the U.S. (apart from the bank(s) providing these folks' debit cards) would get their cut of the action.
Of course we shouldn't try and save money. Instead they are in tents on a bridge or refugees in Mexico cities on the border. We are just going to spend and spend for absolutely nothing but headache.