Posted on 05/11/2009 10:28:39 PM PDT by Steelfish
MICHAEL GOULDING, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
O.C. may lose millions for jailing illegal immigrants President would cut program for jailing criminal illegal immigrants.
BY CINDY CARCAMO
President Barack Obama's plan to redirect federal funds to the southwest border could mean Orange County stands to lose nearly $6.5 million in funds to house illegal immigrants with criminal convictions while the state could lose $110 million.
Local and state officials have joined members of Congress who are up in arms about Obama's announcement last week to kill a program that has provided about half a billion dollars in federal funds to states and local municipalities for the incarceration of illegal immigrants with criminal records.
"We expect that we are going to have to fight a battle that we are too familiar with fighting," said H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the state's Department of Finance.
About $400 million will still go to communities in fiscal year 2009 for the jailing of illegal immigrants who have been convicted of at least one felony or two misdemeanors. However, the $950 million authorized for fiscal year 2010 was scrapped by Obama's budget.
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Some of that hope and change thingy.This could bite him in the ass.
Then O.C. shouldn’t jail them.
They should deport them immediately, and build the damn fence to keep them out!
If Orange County contracted out the jailing to Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the cost would be minimal, and the illegals would start going back to Mexico.
Maybe they could give them all a one way ticket to Washington DC. Let that place deal with their criminal behavior.
I disagree, washington d.c. doesn't deserve that- send them to Chicago. They DO deserve them.
Load them on a bus and drop them off on 14th Street in D.C.
Problem solved!
ignorant “magic negro”.
I’ve got a really simple solution...
Load them up on a bus. Drive them to Washington, DC.
Drop them off in front of the White House and the Capital building.
Hand them a crisp $20 bill and tell them “have a nice day. You’re THEIR problem now...”
Mark
The solution is simple. Give them all one-way tickets to D.C.
ping
Move them to the White House lawn.
Kalefornia is broken!
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