California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger this week suggested that his cash-starved state save money by paying Mexico to build prisons that would house California's incarcerated illegal immigrants.
He made the comment during a Q-and-A session with the Sacramento Press Club Monday, adding that the state could use the saved money to stop the budgetary bleeding in higher education.
"We can do so much better in the prison system alone if we can go and take inmates, for instance the 20,000 inmates that are illegal immigrants that are here, and get them to Mexico," Schwarzenegger said, according to the Los Angeles Times. "Think about it."
He said building and staffing prisons in Mexico is about half as expensive as doing so in the United States.
"That is money -- $1 billion right there -- that could go into higher education," he said.
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Schwarzenegger Proposes Sending Illegal Immigrant Prisoners to Mexico
Rob Kuznia -- HispanicBusiness.com
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samrat
6/8/2010 7:46:31 PM PST
Yea! Great idea!. Send them money to build a prison, then send the prisoners back to them only to have them release the prisoners so they can come back up here, and then they will use the prison to incarcerate Americans who have entered Mexico illegally... PLEASE! What makes anyone think that the Mexican government would play by the rules. Just listen to their political leaders complain about us when we try to enforce our laws and keep the illegals out!
owlloverbabe
1/27/2010 12:22:00 AM PST
Mexico should build prisons there. Oh! yeah, the good ol U.S. A., will end up paying to build these prisons. Better that than keeping them in ours at our expense.
supporting illegal immigrants.Americans are being cheated out of what is rightly ours.
My husband & I can't afford for him to go into a hospital or nursing home. He had Quadruple By Pass late Sept 2008. He fractured his lef hip-it was replaced. H ebroke his Femur on his left leg-surgery. I am unable to be paid to care for him by I. H. S. S.
He receives $974 a month in Social Security.
The State Medical office says he would be responsible for $939 out of his $974 income. We couldn't pay our monthly bills. We are being cheated by our state of health care we worked for.
Go Home, Stay Home. People! Stop breaking our laws.
