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karynnj

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5. I would think if ICE used it to detain people, they would pay.

Reply to allegorical oracle (Reply #4)

Wed Jul 16, 2025, 12:46 PM

Jul 16

My supposition was that the more it cost FL to create and maintain, the more they would pay. FL could be seen to have taken on the role of owning a "private prison".

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I wonder if this approved high salary might be that ICE is paying the state on a cost plus basis karynnj Jul 16 #3

Keep reading the millions of cost will be "fronted" by Florida. Then maybe (or not) allegorical oracle Jul 16 #4

I would think if ICE used it to detain people, they would pay. karynnj Jul 16 #5

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