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August 30, 2010
Without Federal Support, AZ Faces Costs for Immigrant Detention The Christian Science Monitor says that detaining illegal immigrants until they can be deported carries a high cost. "In Arizona, police could arrest them under the new state law, but keeping them in already crowded jails costs roughly $100 a day per person. For 5,000 people, imprisonment costs could add up to $182.5 million a year. That's a hefty charge for a state struggling with a budget deficit of at least $368 million," the paper notes. "Presumably Arizona could save money by handing illegal immigrants over to the federal government for deportation . . . Whether Washington will pay for more deportations is problematic." [FAIR Comment: The CSM analysis is based on the unrealistic assumption that the state would hold illegal aliens that the federal government would not accept for deportation in detention for a full year. If Arizona just held those 5,000 deportable aliens for a month, the cost would be $15 million a year.] |
