Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Congress Cuts Funds for Jailing Illegal Immigrants convicted of Crimes

A massive 2014 federal spending bill passed this week by Congress would cut nearly $60 million — or about 25% — from a federal program that reimburses states and local governments for the cost of incarcerating undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes. 
Local and state taxpayers will have to pick up a bigger share of the tab as Congress moves to reduce the annual funding of the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) from $238 million to $180 million in 2014.
Among the states that would be hit hardest are Arizona, California, Florida, New Jersey, New York and Texas, which have high numbers of undocumented immigrant criminals serving time in state prisons and county jails. 
"This is already a burden for state and local law enforcement and county budgets, and this latest cut just makes things worse," said Matt Chase, executive director of the National Association of Counties. "Our view is that it's the federal government's role to take care of illegal immigration. They're supposed to protect the borders but they've failed and local law enforcement is paying for the consequences of undocumented aliens being in the country."
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1 comment:

BOSMAN said...

Priorities....Priorities...

Lets cut funding to states for jailing ILLEGALS that are criminals. After all, states are doing the work that we should be doing .... that we don't want to do ...

Yeah... Secure the border...do you see a need? Team Obama doesn't...and they don't think you should either...