States: "Help Us, Criminal Illegals Swamp Budgets, Prisons"

Townhall.com ^ | June 10, 2011 | John Ransom

[Steely Tom]

“The System Is Working.”

[stars & stripes forever]

Put them on a chain gang and have them pick vegetables and the other jobs Americans don’t want to do. Let them pay for themselves.

[Doogle]

"I can't hear youuuuu"

[hfr]

Every time I read about States calling on D.C. for money I think of what “Ike” said when he was prez, “People think the Federal Government is a cow that eats grass in Heaven and can be milked on earth.” (paraphrased).

[RetiredArmy]

California should not carry the burden alone?????

BULL!!! California is a self inflicted wound. They spend billions every year to support these illegals. Let California rot in its own garbage. They created the problem. Let them suffer the consequences. My home state, Alabama, is taking steps on illegals. California just welcomes them more and more, for the votes. Which is stupid as the communists already control the Soviet satellite state of Kaliforniastan.

[SMARTY]

The Peoples’ Republik of Kalifornia is a petri dish for all these ‘pathogens’

[blueunicorn6]

What a great system! Have other people pay to increase your voter base.

[Doogle]

"California cannot and should not have to shoulder this burden alone,"

get your sanctuary cities to pay for them

[thethirddegree]

Thanks for posting. I sent this to my Congressmen (I recently discovered Congress.org which saves me a lot of time) along with my solution:

1)deport or imprison ALL illegal aliens,including their anchor babies

2) send Mexico a bill for housing their scum in our prisons

3)seal/secure the border with armed troops, a wall and a fence

4)have a lethal response to anyone who tries to re-enter illegally

[Red Badger]

Criminal illegals?
As opposed to NON-Criminal Illegals?.............

[yldstrk]

States give up their freedom for reach fed dollar accepted

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

An easy fix for this is the Joe Arpaio solution.

Set up tent prisons in the desert near the border. They are much cheaper than “brick prisons”, and by international law, “military field conditions” are *not* “cruel and unusual”.

Each prison would have its own federal immigration judge, to hear the merits of each case before ordering deportation. It would also have a processing trailer to insure that detailed biometric data was collected from every illegal alien prior to deportation.

Then, any illegal alien prisoner who had committed a serious misdemeanor or felony crime in the US would be permanently barred from reentry. Returning after such a bar is a serious multi-year felony offense.

I would also include a process used by the State of Arizona. Since just south of the border is an ultra-violent killing field, Arizona has taken to flying illegal immigrants direct to Mexico City. The illegals are far happier about this, and it serves the dual purpose of being about 1200 miles to the US border, so it is much harder for them to return to the US.

The benefits of doing all of this is first, clearing our brick jails and prisons of illegal aliens who have about concluded their sentences, thus saving States millions of dollars. Secondly, isolated tent prisons in the desert near the border need minimal security, because there is nowhere to go to on foot.

Third, since they are going to be deported anyway, and this is important, many of them will vie for *voluntary* repatriation, so can be put right on the plane. This will expedite the process considerably.

[Vaduz]

Non-enforcement of immigration laws.Another gift from congress. /S

[HiJinx]

Ping!

[GOPJ]

...350,000 criminal aliens in U.S. prisons, “the majority from Mexico.” At $30,000 per year, per inmate, that’s $11 billion annually...

I'm speechless...

[Blue Ink]

You’re retired military; how do you not see that California was invaded and colonized against the will of her American citizens? And YOUR federal government and YOUR military, never lifted a finger to stop it?

The Federal government claims as its sole purview everything that would have helped California defend herself: internal deportation, closing the border; ending birthright citizenship; citizenship requirements for welfare benefits; citizenship requirements for public schooling; and workplace citizenship verification.

Californians enacted EVERY SINGLE ONE of those things early on in the invasion, either administratively or at the ballot box, and the Federal Government slapped them all down. Court verdicts were clear: the Federal government won’t deport them, so California MUST support them. And we have. And it’s bankrupted us.

Meanwhile, the rest of the American states yawned. THEIR states weren’t on the front lines of the invasion, so let California twist in the wind.

Now we’ve been thoroughly colonized, and the invaders and second generation spawn control the state government through ballot box numbers. Is it still our fault?

I don’t understand why so many Americans are petulantly and childishly okay with surrendering an American state to a foreign country. It’s craven and shameful. Does it make you feel better to blame Californians for your abandoning us? Are you jealous of our weather? I just don’t get it.

Please report back to FR after your home state of Alabama gets dragged into court over your immigration self-defense measures — you know, the ones California enacted twenty years ago — and your self-righteous, historically ignorant fat head is handed to you by your Federal government.

[RnMomof7]

Well we will just have to change the law that prohibits prostitution..so they can keep doing “work” no American wants to do

[winodog]

The feds will release them in order to create the chaos and destruction needed to bring about hope and change

[Moonman62]

The General Accounting Office estimates that as of 2009 there were currently about 350,000 criminal aliens in U.S. prisons, “the majority from Mexico.” At $30,000 per year, per inmate, that’s $11 billion annually, with most of the costs born by the states.

I wonder if John McCain used that in his calculations for cheap lettuce.