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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