California Spending 1.1 Billion Each Year Incarcerating Illegal Immigrants
By Nathan Mintz | January 17, 2010
The Federal Government can’t keep our borders secured, and we here in California are footing the bill– to the tune of 1.1 Billion Dollars last year just to incarcerate illegal immigrants who shouldn’t even be here! Full Story Here.
We have over 20,000 illegal immigrants in California prisons– at a $53,000 per year incarceration fee each. That’s how much it costs to pay the prison guards to watch them, keep a roof over their head, feed them and ensure they have access to the best medical care the state can afford. The amazing thing is, we are told that we can’t just deport them, because they’ll simply just come back over the border illegally again– what a defeatist mindset. This is the problem with having poor border security: each day dozens more felons and criminals enter our borders, that undermine law and order and fill up our already overcrowded prisons and we have no means to stop them.
What about the 1,000 or so that are from El Salvador? Can’t we deport them? It’s a lot harder to get back here from San Salvador, El Salvador than it is from Tijuana, Mexico. I don’t understand why our state legislature is so impotent as to call this an all or nothing problem. It’s time we get someone in there who is willing to explore every possible avenue to get these illegal aliens out of our prisons, rather than waiting around for an extradition/prisoner transfer treaty with these other countries that may never happen.
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