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| Deportation seen as way to cut costs |
| By The Associated Press |
| Published: 12/31/2008 |
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WASHINGTON - To save money, Gov. Christine Gregoire wants illegal immigrants serving time in state jails deported. Her proposal estimates that deporting illegal immigrants — who are serving or would serve time in state jails for drug- or property-crime convictions — will save the state more than $9 million in the next two-year budget. The state faces a $5.7 billion budget deficit over the next 2 ½ years, and Gregoire has proposed a no-new-taxes budget laden with cuts, including about $200 million from the Department of Corrections, the Attorney General's Office and other public-safety programs. The deportation proposal is modeled after a program in Arizona that has saved that state more than $18.5 million since 2005, said Eldon Vail, secretary of Washington's Department of Corrections. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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