The answers are, of course:
- They shit on refugees from Venezuela because they’re hypocrits.
- They don’t care about whether the refugees are actually legal because they’re xenophobes and hypocrits.
- It was exactly like luring a child into a van, because it’s all projection.
- They don’t care how much it costs the taxpayers because they’re all about using taxes to entrench power: using it to help people, even (especially?) the people who paid is, it socialism or something. Or: yes, these people do consider “owning the libs” worth the cost.
- It’s Christofascist. Whether that counts as “Christian” or not depends on who you ask. See the discussion at Christianity continues decline in America
- It’s not supposed to deter migrants at all. (Although the idea that this set up a whole host of impossible-to-meet conditions and set every one of them up to fail and be deported with prejudice was certainly not a coincidence.) “Owning the libs” was the point. All of the money and effort and state and federal laws broken were for some embarrassing footage of “libs” being racists, which they didn’t get, because they weren’t racist. That this was a possible outcome wasn’t considered, because de Santis and his ilk don’t have the capacity to comprehend that someone else might not act like he would.
