Posted on 05/09/2005 2:23:41 PM PDT by theBuckwheat
From the briefing:
- At the federal level, the number of criminal aliens incarcerated increased from about 42,000 at the end of calendar year 2001 to about 49,000 at the end of calendar year 2004 a 15 percent increase. ... We estimate the federal cost of incarcerating criminal aliens BOP's cost to incarcerate criminals and reimbursements to state and local governments under SCAAP totaled approximately $5.8 billion for calendar years 2001 through 2004. ...
- At the state level, the 50 states received reimbursement for incarcerating about 77,000 criminal aliens in fiscal year 2002 and 47 states received reimbursement for incarcerating about 74,000 in fiscal year 2003.1 For the 5 states incarcerating about 80 percent of these criminal aliens in fiscal year 2003, 2 about 68 percent incarcerated in midyear 2004 reported that the country of citizenship or country of birth as Mexico, the Dominican Republic, or Cuba. We estimate that 4 of these 5 states spent about $1.6 billion to incarcerate criminal aliens reimbursed through SCAAP during fiscal years 2002 and 2003.3 ...
- At the local level, in fiscal year 2002, SCAAP reimbursed about 750 local governments for incarcerating about 138,000 criminal ... We estimate that 4 of these 5 local jails spent an estimated $390 million in fiscal years 2002 and 2003 to incarcerate criminal aliens and were reimbursed about $73 million through SCAAP.
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5 municipal and county jails incarcerated about 30 percent of these criminal aliens in fiscal year 2003 Los Angeles County, California; New York City, New York; Orange County, California; Harris County, Texas; and, Maricopa County, Arizona.
Country of citizenship: " Data on citizenship of criminal aliens reimbursed through SCAAP not available. " In fiscal year 2003, most of the foreign-born inmates from these 5 jails were born in Mexico (65 percent).
(Excerpt) Read more at gao.gov ...
I beg the freeper's forgivness. That $5.8 billion is the cost for several years, not for one.
>>totaled approximately $5.8 billion for calendar years 2001 through 2004.<<
The operative words are totaled and through.
That still comes to $1.45 billion per year. Not much to a politician, but it could buy a lot of chain-link fencing and razor wire.
Five BILLION dollars a year to incarcerate illegals who commit crimes? How about just sending them back and securing the borders?
/sarcasm
I'm with you, Peach...just send 'em home.
And make sure the borders are secure enough to catch them...all of them...when they try to reenter. We have caught tens of thousands this year alone (I believe it was 24,000 plus) coming in across Arizona's porous borders as well as through the Ports of Entry. The key was the implementation of a system that checked fingerprints against a fingerprint database tied to several 'wants and warrants' style databases.
In addition to regular prisoners in CA. We have an additional 50% that are all illegals.
Being illegals make up what, 3% of the population? Tells you they are making up out of that population more than 1000% of the crime.
Based on the comments of the anti-immigrant folks you would think that aliens comprise much more than 27% of the criminals in jails. I would have thought 60%-70%, based on the anymosity. The same anymosity exists in Europe but I think the Unions are creating a lot of it because they are losing a lot of control, money, and power to people who come in and work for minimal wages and are still happy to have a job. The scare mongering mirrors ours but it happens comes from the left. They also blame the negative effects of their idiotic socialist policies on immigrants and everyone else.
It's time to privatize the prisons.
It may be time to privatize law enforcement.
Could it be you've confused 'immigrants' with 'criminal aliens'?
That's illegals.
Isn't that just what the Feds paid back? States are complaining like crazy they are having to fund the majority of the cost as indicated above, cost $390 million, reimbursement $73 million. That's just for local jails which actually I guess is funded by the counties?
It's hard to know how much we're really spending. Was that GAO report combining the totals of SCAAP plus the amount to incarcerate illegals in the federal prison system?. SCAAP has never fully reimbursed the cities, counties and states for incarcerating illegal aliens.
Bush budget would make border states pay for federal immigration failures
February 7, 2005
In the proposed budget Bush released Monday [2/7/05], funding for SCAAP -- which helps states cover the costs of jailing criminal illegal immigrants -- gets wiped out. States would be on their own to cover the costs of Washington's failed immigration policies.
As it stands, SCAAP was already underfunded. Last year, Congress appropriated just $305 million for the program, but the cost for border states to imprison criminal illegal immigrants is closer to $1 billion.
It's between $80 million and $100 million for Los Angeles County alone, and only $13.8 million of that comes from Washington.
The White House argues that SCAAP funding is no longer necessary because it's beefing up security on the nation's borders.
Does anybody know how SCAAP is doing in regards to the new budget?
IS THAT ALL???
If I'm not mistaken, we are also spending that much to secure Iraq's borders, yet ours remain falling-down chain link (if we're lucky)...
What I want to know is when are Americans going to say "enough is enough" and march in force on Congress and make OUR voices heard? I see the Mexicans protest and they ALL stick together. As soon as Ted Kennedy and John McCain push their new immigration amnesty legislation through it's going to be too late.
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