If You Bribe Them, They Will Take Them

What was the cost to taxpayers for Palau taking the Uighurs off the hands of the US government? $12 million each. $200 million in total. The Uighurs couldn't be repatriated to China, where they're considered terrorists, and the US wasn't going to let them into the US because we had our own concerns about their intentions, even after the Pentagon ruled that they were not enemy combatants:

The announcement Wednesday by the Pacific archipelago, which would clear the last of the Uighurs from the camp in Cuba, was a major step toward the Obama administration's goal of finding new homes for detainees who have been cleared of wrongdoing but cannot go home for fear of ill-treatment.

The U.S. feared the minority Uighurs would be tortured or executed as Islamic separatists if returned to China, but the Obama administration faced fierce congressional opposition to allowing them on U.S. soil as free men. The men were captured in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2001, but the Pentagon determined that they were not "enemy combatants."

President Johnson Toribiong said the decision of Palau, one of a handful of countries that does not recognize China and maintains diplomatic relations with Taiwan, was "a humanitarian gesture" intended to help the detainees restart their lives. His archipelago, with a population of about 20,000, will accept up to 17 of the detainees subject to periodic review, Toribiong said in a statement released to The Associated Press.

"This is but a small thing we can do to thank our best friend and ally for all it has done for Palau," he said.

China, which has demanded the men be extradited to their homeland and pressured countries not to accept them, had no immediate reaction.