We can’t give our kids health insurance, but we can spend $55 million on a tent city for Cubans….. just IN CASE Castro should die. Here’s a question for ya…..they can already bring their boats to the U.S. shore, and if they get caught with dry feet, they’re in like Flint…..so why bother with a tent city. If they have to weigh the two….tent city….. Miami…..tent city…..Miami…..which do you think they’ll go for? And the Dept. of Homeland Security is going to check for criminals? Who they gonna check with? Raul? I don’t think so…….. Notice in this article it states that in the 90’s when they did this, the Haitians were sent home. They still are. Funny how we pick and choose who we’re going to save and who we aren’t. Of course, Haiti has nothing we want.

The U.S. military has expanded plans for a pop-up tent city to shelter migrants in case of a Caribbean boat crisis, spending more than $55 million to prepare a safe haven for up to 45,000 boat people.

Since Fidel Castro took ill and ceded power of Cuba to his brother Raúl, the Bush administration has been preparing for a 10,000-person tent city.

In May, the Navy hired a Jacksonville contractor to build cement block buildings with 525 toilets and 248 showers on an empty slice of the base. The military could rapidly erect tents around the site. The buildings should be completed next summer at a cost of $16.5 million.

Now, under the expansion, the military has invited military contractors to bid on a $40 million project that would build a second tent city on the base for 35,000 migrants in need of humanitarian relief.

The Navy put out the bid in recent months, said Marine Capt. Manuel Carpio, the officer here assigned to plan for the crisis and coordinate with various U.S. and international agencies.

Full article at the Miami Herald