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Immigration Incarceration Heart of Debate

More news stories on Hispanic Immigrants

David M. Drucker, Los Angeles Daily News, Dec. 14

SACRAMENTO—Adding to the immigration debate, state Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero has scheduled a hearing Thursday in Los Angeles on the cost of holding illegal-immigrant convicts in state prisons and why the federal government isn’t paying more.

Romero, D-Los Angeles, estimated the state pays as much as $868 million a year to incarcerate up to 28,000 felons who are immigrants, including many who entered the country illegally.

The prison system costs state taxpayers about $6 billion a year, and the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates the current budget deficit at $6.7 billion.

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(Posted on December 16, 2004)

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