I was going to thank you for the links, until I read them and found they had nothing to do with this discussion :P

Seriously, while I have reservations about the claims of said links, I will acknowledge "my side" has a tendency to
inflate (ok, sometimes radically inflate) the costs. However, in this specific instance we can calculate, using actual numbers, the cost. If I was truly cynical I would surmise, from the speculation of cost of putting up 243 minor children at the Port Hueneme Naval Base, that was why articles about it stopped.