AP: California joins call for feds to reimburse immigrant costs

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The Daily Breeze

Thursday, April 06, 2006

California joins call for feds to reimburse immigrant costs

Schwarzenegger and other governors are trying to recover money spent on criminal illegal aliens.
By The Associated Press

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and 13 other governors pressed federal lawmakers Wednesday to find money to reimburse states for the cost of jailing illegal immigrants -- something that costs California more than $750 million a year.

President Bush's budget request for 2007 proposed killing the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program. Bush has deleted the program in past years but Congress has not gone along. Lawmakers found $405 million for the program in 2006 -- about 40 percent of that goes to California.

Schwarzenegger and the other governors on Wednesday wrote to the chairmen and top Democrats on the spending subcommittees in the Senate and House with jurisdiction over the program. The letter asked them to find $850 million for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program in 2007.

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Signing the letter along with Schwarzenegger were the governors of Arizona, Georgia, Texas, Washington, Florida, New York, Iowa, Minnesota, Oregon, New Mexico, Nevada, Illinois and New Jersey.


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[Redstone]

1. Let's whip up some more anti-immigrant hysteria, along with

some more "nuke Iran" hysteria, to distract ourselves from what's really going on.

Redstone

[LostInAnomie]

2. Shit, if it wasn't for the illegal immigrant labor...

... the economy of the South West especially California would collapse. But if they really wanted to stop the problem they could always make it a felony to hire them.