Funding for jailing illegals falls short(711.2 Million a year)

Whittier Daily News ^ | 7/16/2004 | Lisa Friedman

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

California spent $711.2 million to lock up illegal aliens, and your state is gonna spend that much pretty soon, I'm sure.

[Imal]

It's no biggie. Taxes from illegals more than pay for this.

Just ask MALDEF. They wouldn't lie to you unknowingly.

[freedumb2003]

In fact, there isn't a state in the union that wouldn't trade California's numbers. And, some of them would do it without complaining.

Dumbest thing said on FR for quite some time. Illegals take billions more OUT of the state in terms of infrastructure, health care, schooling, etc. than they put in. Last time they looked, it was somewhere in ghe 3019 billion range.

Want our numbers? Take 'em! I mean 35 Billion in debt is no big deal, right?

[mcg1969]

If they would spend half that money setting up a state-funded border patrol, they'd save the other half, easy.

[freedumb2003]

3-10 billion (bad typo)

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

Lemmee guess, you refuse to provide links and I should do my own research, right?

[dennisw]

California gets stuck with all these imprisoned illegals because California screws itself by being too nice and accommodating to illegal aliens. Many California cities forbid their police to determine the immigration status of an arrestee, and don't cooperate with the INS. So the Feds can be blamed for lax immigration enforcement but so can the state of California.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

You should mention that your figures come from your own research of immigration when posting them.

[Cultural Jihad]

Schools are paid by property taxes, which renters all contribute to indirectly regardless of their citizenship status. Even so, it is in the interest of everyone that all children who live here are educated.

[montag813]

California spent $711.2 million to lock up illegal aliens, and your state is gonna spend that much pretty soon, I'm sure.

God forbid Congress passes a law requiring all states AND cities to cooperate with the INS and turn in all illegals discovered for deportation. That would just make TOO much sense.

[null and void]

I have a modest proposal. Rather than jail them. let's bus them to Washington DC and dump them off...

[eccentric]

Ship them back to their home country and pay the foreign prison to incarcerate them there. It's gotta be cheaper.

[sweetliberty]

"The Department of Justice, which administers the program, estimates that last year 270,000 illegal immigrants served jail time"

But I thought that most illegals were just law-abiding people who are only here to do the jobs Americans won't do. You mean, that's not true? I'm so shocked. < /sarcasm >

[sweetliberty]

"Rather than jail them. let's bus them to Washington DC and dump them off..."

Don't we have enough of a protected criminal class in Washington D.C. already?

[NewRomeTacitus]

"Ask yourself why bankers, and business people, and chambers of commerce, and elected officials are not in favor of rounding up illegals and sending them back to where they came from. If they honestly take BILLIONS out of the "infrastructure" don't you think that there would be a serious effort to get rid of them?"

Oh, could it be that they rake off their percentages through remittances, undercut wages and receive political contributions from said bankers and employers, respectively? Don't pretend you're some kind of ultimate authority, especially when your new and haven't bothered to put anything on your About Page. For all I know you're Vicente Fox himself.

[TheLion]

Why are we jailing illegals? Why not deport them....cheaper in the long run. Better yet, keep them from coming in and staying.