Baptists paid $183 million for four months of illegal immigrant childcare

Federal officials paid Baptist Children and Family Services nearly $183 million to help care for 2,400 unaccompanied illegal immigrant children for four months earlier this year at military facilities in Oklahoma and Texas, according to documents made public Wednesday by Judicial Watch.

"The cost to the American taxpayer was $86,846.34 per illegal alien child at Ft. Sill [in Oklahoma], for a total to $104,215,608 for 1,200 UACs from June 12 to October 18," Judicial Watch said. "The bill also included $2,648,800 in compensation for 30 members of the BCFS 'Incident Management Team,' for a total to $88,293 per IMT member for the four-month period."

The non-profit group received the documents Sept. 4 in response to a Freedom of Information Act request but only made them public Wednesday.

"The $77,914,178 to care for 1,200 children at Lackland Air Force Base [in Texas] amounted to a cost to the taxpayer of $64,928 per illegal alien child from May 18 to September 18. The Lackland bill included $20,000 for a 'cable television screen/projector set up' and 20 shower stalls at $1,000 each," the group said.

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