July 26, 2008
Tancredo Asks Schwarzenegger to Cut Services to Illegals
U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) today sent a letter to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) asking him to look into the vast amounts of money spent on services for illegal aliens in California, despite the serious budget concerns the state is facing.
…In your budget message and proposal for the FY2009 state budget, you identified over $1,000,000 that could be saved by reducing the sentences of illegal aliens incarcerated by the state Department of Corrections. I think it is safe to say that that savings figure could be doubled if the state prohibited all sanctuary policies and all criminal aliens were reported to federal immigration authorities and deported after their first criminal offense.
There would be far fewer criminal aliens in the state correctional system if they were deported out of local jails after their first conviction. Yet the federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement says that only 10% of inmates in local jails are ever deported…
LINK - BorderFireReport.net
