The cost of incarcerating this number totals more than $200 million each year. But these are Just the costs of incarceration. The costs of processing these aliens for deportation and coordinating related activities with the INS adds an additional $2 million each year. The California Youth Authority houses more than 750 minors who are designated as illegal aliens9 percent of the youth authoritys population of juvenile offenders. And housing these young people amounts to more than $24 million each year. In short. the State of California must spend a minimum of $226 million each year to deal with criminal aliens. most of them finding their way into prison by way of the Southwest border.
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